The Underlying Message of the Entire Torah - Parshas Mishpatim - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

[Music] we have a Jewish slave who at the end of six years of service he has the opportunity to go free and the Torah recommends that indeed he should go free however if he wants to stay with his master we say go to the door the master takes this servant to the door and he puts his ear on the door and he drills a hole in the A and brings the teaching of says why do we drill the ear more than any other limb of the body says is sending a message to this your ear heard on har that the is are my and you go ahead and you acquire a master for yourself and you want to be an ed to another person and not to God didn't your ear he on har so we drill a hole in the air of the servant and this always troubled me why do we specifically drill a hole in the ear of somebody who was not paying attention to the command what about somebody who speaks why don't we drill a hole in their a that they weren't paying attention at when said why if somebody hates another Jew do we not drill a hole in the a because this person was not paying attention when God said do not hate your brother in your heart certainly was articulated on but it wasn't the only thing that was articulated on Hari and yet we specifically drill a hole in the air of someone who wasn't paying attention to that and not someone who wasn't listening to any other commandment you know the very first mitzah that gives the Jewish people after after is the Mitzvah of freeing slaves that after six years we must free our slaves and if we don't we have to drill a hole in their ear isn't it surprising that this is a very first Mitzvah that teaches the Jewish people is this really so fundamental that it's the very first Mitzvah that God teaches us it didn't even apply throughout our history any time in our history that the Mitzvah of Y did not apply for instance in the midbar or after the destruction of the first temple the Mitzvah freeing slaves did not apply this would not seem to be such an important Mitzvah that it is given the right to be the first Mitzvah taught to the Jewish people but the explanation is as follows the teaches us that even though at first glance it would seem that going down to Egypt really lowered our nation it brought us down to the 49th level of Tuma and it was a source of impurity for CLA Soul nevertheless the says the purpose of going down to MIM was to ingrain in the Jewish people the fundamental teaching and lesson that is needed to be an EV Hashem and that is in order to serve Hashem one must be able to be an evid a servant now we don't want to be a servant to par but that was like boot camp that was like training for the Jewish people for them to be able to acquire the Mida the characteristic of being able to be an EV and once we were an EV to par then God transitioned us to becoming a to Hashem so even though yes indeed it brought us to a very low level but it inculcated and it integrated within our Persona and in within our personality the ability to be an which we then transferred and transitioned to becoming the entire purpose of being a was to become now if somebody violates a specific lav in the Tyra we're not going to drill a hole in the ear maybe that's very difficult for them maybe they weren't paying attention so closely to that line or that verse but if you were to ask standing at Sinai hearing 613 Mitzvah what is the overarching fundamental principle that God is saying to the Jewish people not a specific line but an underlying foundational principle of all 613 Mitzvah and the answer is the the foundation of all the MIT is that we are we are clery we are responsible toes not only because we love him not only because it's good for us not only because he's going to reward us but on the most basic level we are he redeemed us he saved our life he gives us everything we have at the very least our responsibility is to do his bidding and therefore somebody violates a Prohibition in the Tyra we're not going to drill a hole in his ear maybe he missed that one maybe that one is too difficult but if somebody did not listen to the overarching message of all 613 namely you are my servants the Jewish people are my servants they're not Servants of any human Master then indeed we drill a hole in his ear and therefore the very first Mitzvah given after the Ten Commandments which is the foundation of everything which is the Y of everything which is the overarching principle of all 63 is that if you have a servant you must free him after 6 years because the Jewish people are servants to me and not to any human Master the foundational principle of the entire T is we are the wishing everyone a wonderful week [Music]