Mishpatim: The Revolutionary Trop on "and in the 7th Year"

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

I want to alleviate whatever anxiety you're having over that unusual truck in the beginning of the para. I know you've been tossing and turning the whole week and you're looking forward to a good night's sleep tonight. So, I'm going to help you out with that because I know you've been thinking what's going on in the beginning of the para. [clears throat] If you will buy a Jewish slave, six years he will work. What it should say is and in the seventh year he goes free. Or it should say but we have this trap which is what we call a where the word end in the seventh year stands on its own. So let me sing it to you in English. If you will buy a Jewish slave, six years he will work. And in the seventh year, he will go free to freedom without any money. Why do we take end in the seventh year and we encapsulate it and we isolate it as a clause by itself? It should say if you

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1. 0:01I want to alleviate whatever anxiety you're having over that unusual truck in the beginning of…
2. 0:34is and in the seventh year he goes free. Or it should say but we have…
3. 1:06slave, six years he will work. And in the seventh year, he will go free to…
4. 1:36And in the seventh year he goes free. Why do we take and in the seventh…
5. 2:09years in other words let's say he started to work onesh so when rashashana comes does…
6. 2:39we read it six years he'll work even in the seventh year meaning even though of…
7. 3:10year. So therefore says how does the garam know in that? Why don't you read the…
8. 3:40because it's encapsulated with its own. So the reason why is isolated to indicate that there…
9. 4:12years. We don't start the next year when rashash shana comes. Okay.…

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