Parshas Mishpatim: The Slaves of Hashem

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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.

six years and seventh year that's it he goes free right no 20-year uh retirement plan on 20 to six years that's it he works six years then he gets uh full pension right he gets a retirement package he goes free it's very interesting the very first Mitzvah that Hashem gives Claud Israel after that sirsa debris is to free a slave I mean that's a quite odd that should be the very first message you would think you know oh now that you heard on her I've seen that there's one God you know put on Phil and wrap it around your arm or keep Shabbos the very first Mitzvah that's the first thing that comes to hashem's mind oh the first thing you need to know is if you have a guy who you know has uh got caught up in some kind of financial problem he sold himself as a slave let him go after six years that's the first thing I should think stuff so I'm buying is bothered by this question and the ramban tries to answer it Raman tries to say the following the man says God begins that the First Command should be the Jewish slave because by freeing a slave in the seventh year it is a commemoration of leaving Egypt why because the same way Hashem says let your slave Go free just like I freed you from its rhyme and then the ramban goes on to say that the same way the world was created in six days and God rested on the

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1. 0:32six years and seventh year that's it he goes free right no 20-year uh retirement plan…
2. 5:16you're my slaves you're not a slave to some other Master the end this guy goes…
3. 10:12doesn't say that from I mean we don't find that where is the source that Hashem…
4. 15:06didn't free your slaves I will make free every catastrophe in the world every disaster that…
5. 19:54important skill to be a good Jew you have to learn how to be an avid…
6. 24:36Israel is it's a land of avdos and when we are not avadim inherit Israel then…
7. 29:49you out of a time I trained you for 400 years how to be my servant…
8. 34:30Master why doesn't he simply wishes and tell him because he's because he likes it because…
9. 39:22with gratitude that you're just indebted to that person so that's what it means in The…
10. 44:05that's a cloud always tells us many many places that the more Hashem does for a…

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