Terms of Having a Maid - אמה עברייה
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General rules of acquiring the services of, and freeing, a maid
The Severance Gifts for a maid
Ownership of Services
At what age a woman may become a maid: Ketuvot 29a-b, 40b
Source for the ability of a Jew or Nochri to acquire her services with monetary payment: Kiddushin 14b
Whether a
woman who will not develop secondary sex characteristics
can become a maid: Kiddushin 4a-b
The eventual results for a father who accepts money in exchange for his daughter's service: Megillah 27a
Whether a female may become a maid after having completed one period of servitude: Kiddushin 18a, 18a-19a
Whether a female may become a maid after having been married and divorced/widowed: Kiddushin 18a-19a
Whether a female may become a maid after her father has accepted money for
her "Kiddushin" stage of marriage
: Kiddushin 18b
Whether the arrangement requires an exchange of money or a legal document: Kiddushin 4b [2x], 9b
Source for the ability to acquire her services with a document: Kiddushin 16a
Who would write the document: Kiddushin 16a
Whether the acquisition of services may be via completed via intercourse: Kiddushin 9b
Whether the acquisition of services may be completed via having her work ["
Chazakah
"]: Kiddushin 16a
Whether a maid's assent to a sale of services is necessary: Kiddushin 5a, 5b
Whether a woman may become a maid where "
Yiud
is an impossibility: Kiddushin 12a, 18b, 19b-20a
Whether a woman may become a maid where "
Yiud
would be in violation of a prohibition [but would be valid]: Kiddushin 18b, 19b, 20a
Whether a woman may become a maid for payment of less than a certain minimal amount: Kiddushin 12a
Whether a female maid may undergo
ear-piercing
to stay longer: Kiddushin 15a [2x], 16b, 17b
The rights that go with having a maid
Whether the master has rights to all of whatever his maid produces: Ketuvot 40b, 46b, 47a; Kiddushin 3b, 16b
Who has rights to
objects which the maid finds
: Kiddushin 16b
Whether there is any contract for a marital relationship in the arrangement: Kiddushin 4b
Whether a female maid's services are inherited by the master's heirs: Kiddushin 17b [2x]
Whether a
Freedom
Forcing the father to buy out his daughter's arrangeement if he sells her services, where he can afford to do so: Kiddushin 18a [2x]
Ending the servitude early, by buying out the arrangement: Kiddushin 4b, 11b, 14b, 16a
Source for buying out the arrangement with money, monetary equivalent, or a legal document: Kiddushin 8a, 16a
Whether the master may forgive the contract, or whether there must a document drawn up: Kiddushin 16a, 28a
Whether she goes free when she reaches
adulthood, signified by two body hairs
: Kiddushin 14b, 16a, 18a; Bava Metzia 12b
Whether a
woman who will not develop secondary sex characteristics
goes free at adulthood, at the age if 20, or some other point: Kiddushin 4a
Whether she goes free when her father dies: Kiddushin 16a; Bava Metzia 12b
Whether she is freed when the master dies: Kiddushin 16a
Whether there is payment of funds when she is freed: Kiddushin 3b-4a
Whether she is freed if the master causes a blemish to certain limbs: Kiddushin 16a
Whether she is freed in the Sabbatical or Jubilee Year: Kiddushin 16a
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