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Now I say this: for however much time as the yoresh (heir) has not attained his majority (the state or time of being of full legal age, or his religious majority, his Bar Mitzvah), he differs nothing from an eved, though being Ba’al Bayit of all the nachalah (inheritance).

And he is under shomrim (guardians) and omnot (governesses) until the time previously appointed by the Ba’al Bayit.

So also we, when we were immature, had been enslaved under the yesodot (rudiments) of the Olam Hazeh.

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