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size=2>RZS writes:</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>>> The fact that we regard slavery as unthinkable<BR>doesn't
mean we're morally superior, it means that we have been so<BR>infected with
goyishe values that they have become part of us; that's<BR>nothing to be proud
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size=2>AFAIK the Torah does not have different words for "slave" and "servant"
-- the word eved is used for both. I'm not sure the demarcation is so
clear-cut. An eved ivri who works for six years for example, or a girl
"sold" into "slavery" by her father -- who must be married by her employer or
freed when she reaches puberty -- these seem to be more like indentured servants
than slaves. The employer has so many responsibilities towards his slave,
and owns him for such a limited time. What he seems to own is not
the eved but the right to the eved's labor. I put "sold" and "slavery" in
quotes because what the father has really done -- and it would be a deeply
impoverished father who would do this -- is put his daughter in a situation
where she is housed, clothed, fed and perhaps trained for useful employment, and
in exchange for the work the girl will do, her father has received
payment, which he obviously desperately needs.
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PTSIZE="10"><STRONG></STRONG><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>