tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6705549154171325165.post5306613280651955611..comments2023-04-02T07:31:17.328-07:00Comments on Yeshivas Ye'ush MiDa'as: Mishpatim: The Question of SlaveryThe Odd Coghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631555699756710917noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6705549154171325165.post-61884817598209064992009-02-22T21:33:00.000-08:002009-02-22T21:33:00.000-08:00I was never bothered by the concept of the eved iv...I was never bothered by the concept of the eved ivri: you can't pay back a debt, you have to work it off, you get treated relatively well, and after 7 years you get set free. It's the concept of the eved canaani that was always troublesome to me: servitude for life, more like the kind of slavery that we as Westerners think is repugnant. True, if you kill your eved canaani you get the death penalty, and if you knock out his eye or tooth he goes free, so you better be careful when you beat him. But still. And then there's a question of what exactly an eved canaani is. I assume that the POWs in Israel's conquent of the land from the Canaanites qualify. But if one goy (or even a Jew) hits a(nother) goy anywhere in the world over the head, drags him off to the slave market, and sells him as a slave to a Jew, is that a legit eved Canaani? Two final thoughts: (1) I'll never forget the Chasid in Boro Park who once told me with a straight face that he thought that the American government had no right to abolish slavery -- how could they just go and steal people's property like that? and (2) did Yoni Netanyahu actually say that, or are you just quoting the line from the movie?Moshehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11401441454620293229noreply@blogger.com