Freedom - Being G-d's Servant (Parshat Behar)

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

[Music] in the portion of Bahar we talk about a Jew who becomes destitute and is sold to you as a slave says the Torah do not work him with slave labor comes the question to mind nowadays that we do not have the yel the nowadays that we do not have the yel the Jubilee year the laws of slavery are not in effect and so what is the message of this passage in the Torah and the ram who has the laws and the mitzvos on the Torah negative commandment 257 tells us from here we learn that we are forbidden from giving a a Jewish servant degrading servant degrading work and do not work him as a canite servant so how do we apply all of these things today to understand this we have to look into the laws of aim the laws of slavery and in truth there are five levels and five grades when it comes to slavery the first is called an evid Kanani and that is a non-jewish servant and that is a non-jew from all servant and that is a non-jew from all or any of the nations of the world that is bought by a Jew as a slave the law is he's called an EV Kanani however before he works for the Jew he undergoes a process and that is he put the slave into a Mikvah and he denies idolatry he gives up all of his Idols he accepts God as his God and then he has to accept upon

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1. 0:02[Music] in the portion of Bahar we talk about a Jew who becomes destitute and is…
2. 2:37menstruates so all these laws apply also to a canite servant what about the positive mitzvas…
3. 5:44of the family of the kohin and therefore you are allowed to feed the EV canum…
4. 8:18almighty God but really in essence we want to do the right thing so the is…
5. 11:20be what's the difference one example is that a slave that was sold by beIN is…
6. 13:57on so therefore the says whoever acquires a Jewish servant in essence is really acquiring himself…
7. 17:04servant but when you are put into it through the bezin you are forced into servitude…
8. 19:38laws of that is a Jewish maid servant and this is that a father who is…
9. 22:48level but in the there are two levels the first level is that she became the…
10. 25:26know while I am alive I know you're going to be okay but after I leave…

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