If Slavery Was Necessary, Why Didn't Shevet Levi Need It?

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

Hi, this is David Eliavski with our question and answer series. If we had to go through the shibud Mitzrayim to return to chaim to accept the Torah, why did shevet Levi not have to go through the shibud? Well, this is obviously a complicated question uh to someone who is a neophyte who might be coming in, you know, and uh let's let's break down the question. We went down to Egypt and we became slaves and in that process we lost our identities. Right? We we lost our names. Geulah the safer Geulah is called safer Shmos. We had to get our names back. We had to regain our identities. Slaves have no identity. And so it's compared to a smelting pot where if you want to make something new out of gold, you have to first melt it down into its raw form and then you can give it a new form. So because we had to go to Har Sinai and receive the Torah and give us ourselves

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Eliavski with our question and answer series. If we had to go…
2. 0:32identities. Right? We we lost our names. Geulah the safer Geulah is called safer Shmos. We…
3. 1:02a whole new tsurah, a whole new form, we had to boil out all the impurities…
4. 1:33slavery, that would be a better question. But we didn't have to have the slavery, we…
5. 2:04as history has taught us, anti-Semitism is very often the most effective cure for assimilation. Unfortunately.…
6. 2:35fact that they were under the control of the Egyptians. When we are in golus now,…
7. 3:06We would have had a shibud, but it would not have been an avdus. It wouldn't…

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