[Avodah] Baruch Shelo Asani Eved

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, February 12, 2008 3:53 pm, R Zev Sero wrote:
: An eved kenaani, who's not obligated in many mitzvot, and isn't part
: of am yisrael.  An eved ivri is obligated in all mitzvot, and his
: master must allow him to practise them, he just happens to be in
: temporarily straitened circumstances.  That doesn't fit the theme.

Back a step... RZS presumes you know that Rashi explains R' Meir as
thanking HQBH for not being someone with fewer chiyuvim. Back in
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol08/v08n094.shtml#12> I bring a
ra'ayah from this from the Xian bible. (Not that Rashi needs such
ra'ayos; but it's helpful in a da mah lehashiv situation WRT "shelo
asani ishah".)

Tangent: Ashkenazim and Teimanim say "aved", unlike the subject line.
Sepharadim say "borei beri hagefen", so I'm not surprised to see one
post "shelo asani eved".

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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