[Avodah] Baruch Shelo Asani Eved

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From: R' Akiva Miller

>>The bracha must refer to an Eved  Kenaani. The proof is in the text of the 
bracha itself -- "He did not make me a  slave" -- which refers to the status I 
had when I was made.

NO ONE comes  into this world as an Eved Ivri. A Jew can be born free, and 
then get sold into  being an Eved Ivri, but he is never a slave from the  
beginning.<<


 
>>>>>
Does "made me" necessarily mean "from birth"?  If a person becomes  blind or 
ill or poor or whatever, some time after his birth, does he not say,  "Hashem 
made me this way"?  Anyway it is possible for a Jew to actually be  born into 
a condition of slavery -- like the babies born in Egypt.
 
A related question.  Does a ger make a bracha, "shelo asani  goy"?  According 
to you, if he was born a goy, he shouldn't say this  bracha.  It seems to me 
that since Hashem made him a Jew, via the  proper procedure, he can now say 
the bracha "shelo asani goy."  But I don't  know the actual psak here, I never 
before thought to ask.



--Toby  Katz
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