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When does an aylonis (girl who lacks signs of maturity) go free from being an amah ivriya? The Gemara (גמרא) says she leaves "at twenty" with bagrus – but retroactively (mafreia) she was a gedola from age twelve. Ramban (רמב"ן) and Rashi (רש"י)/Ribi disagree whether a girl leaves her father's reshus through gedola status or through simanim. The shiur proposes that according to Rashi, gedola status alone doesn't free her – only simanim do. An aylonis has "simanim of immaturity," and full bagrus at twenty is what releases her, not earlier gedola status.
This shiur analyzes a complex sugya in Kiddushin 3b concerning an aylonis (a girl who does not develop the normal signs of maturity) who is sold as an amah ivriya (Hebrew maidservant). The central question is: when does she leave her master's domain, and what are the financial ramifications retroactively once her status as an aylonis is discovered? The Gemara (גמרא) establishes that an ordinary girl sold as an amah ivriya goes free in one of several ways: through simanim (physical signs of maturity at age twelve), or through bagrus (full maturity at age twelve and a half), or when she reaches her majority. But what happens with an aylonis, who never develops simanim at all? The pasuk teaches that she goes out "with bagrus" – but the Gemara says this happens retroactively (mafreia) at age twenty, meaning once she turns twenty without developing simanim, we retroactively know she was an aylonis from age twelve.
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Kiddushin 3b
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