[Avodah] Birchas HaShachar

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 09:31:46PM +0100, allan.engel at gmail.com wrote:
> And that is how the Rambam paskens.
> A nafka mina being, how can we say Shelo Asani Aved today?

First I thought of the countries where slavery is still going on, and
thinking of modifying your question to "in our time and place".

But then I realized that "aved" (or "eved", for our Sepharadi
participants) refers specifically to an eved kenaani owned by a
Jew. Someone who has more mitzvos than those covered by "shelo adani goy /
nakhri / nakhriah".

But in any case, when we were born is part of Hashem's choice of how to
create us. I could have been placed in an eved kenaani's body of 3,000
years ago, had Hashem "Thought" it appropriate. So why not the berakhah?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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