[Avodah] Slavery

[Micha Berger]

"De'aleikh sani, lekhaveirkha lo sa'avod" is sufficient to raise questions
about slavery.

As I wrote yesterday, there are mitzvos that boil down to "be ethical" with a
presumption that ethics goes beyond things spelled out as chiyuvim and
issurim. Whether it's the Ramban's shitah on "qedoshim tihyu", the Rambam's
"Hilkhos Dei'os", or "ve'asisa hatov vehayashar"...

On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:23 pm, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: HQBH also saw fit to regulate eating. Does the need for that
: legislation show dissatisfaction with the idea? I don't think so.

But Hashem writes why He imposed the regulations He did, at least the rashei
peraqim to chapters we can't understand. Minimally, it does show
dissatisfaction with the idea of eating beheimos temei'os, with eating without
care about how to slaughter, or without concern for bishul gedi bachaleiv imo.
Maximally, a vegan wouldn't encounter any of these laws lema'aseh. From Adam
until Noach, that was everyone, and the dor hamidbar only ate meat when eating
qodshim. Perhaps we can say that HQBH shows dissatisfaction with the idea of
eating chullin, or perhaps that is too broad of a generalization.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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