Mishpatim - Slavery Explained | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is De olowski welcome to the par in five where in five minutes we try to give you insight into things in the paraa you know uh there's a comedian Bill Maher I'm certainly not meaning to endorse him but I saw a clip of him once where he said something that was profound he says you people are you know uh destroying the legacy of people like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington you know and they're saying oh they're no all no good because they had slaves says you're not better than them you were just born later so if you were there you would have had slaves too don't fool yourself into thinking you're a better person cuz you're not very interesting Insight but whenever the topic of slavery comes up it always gets um gets a little sticky and people you know slavery of course everyone knows slavery is long no nobody knew slavery was long or until England outlawed slavery until the United States for a war to end slavery people didn't think slavery was wrong everyone accepted this throughout most of History so when the Torah talks about slavery nless to say it makes people somewhat uncomfortable and I'm not here to endorse slavery I'm here to explain the torah's concept of slavery yeah and I'm making a distinction now between evid I and EV Kady because I think that's dishonest when people want to explain slavery and they bringing the concept of an an iy that's a Jew who's been sold for six years as a slave yeah and uh the gamarra says anyone who buys a slave is buying a master for himself and if you have one pillow you have to give it to him and he eats the same that's all talking about a Jewish slave by a non-jewish slave none of that applies so it's a dishonest answer and I don't want to be dishonest with you in the little time that we have together yeah if we had more time together I'd be dishonest but as it is now um I'm on the clock so um uh what is the concept of slavery Noah drinks he does not appreciate how uh powerful wine is now after the mble because he's been U lowered in his power and he gets drunk and uh his Sonam figures out that the reason he was drinking is because he was going to have a romantic uh evening with his wife and so he castrates him because he tells his brothers hey look Ken and Heen were only two people and one killed the other because they were worried about who was going to get the world we are already Three Brothers he wants to have more kids as it is we each only get a third of the world so when Noah came to he realized what did to him he cursed him and said you descendants will be slaves why because you are out of control you're just out of control and when a person is out of control they need to have controls impos imposed on them externally you need a master you need someone to tell you what to do because left to yourself you will be a wild animal you will destroy and do everything you can just to get what you want the purpose of slavery is that people who need these external controls become slaves very interesting in par K when uh Abraham says go and find a wife for my son from uh uh my family so elas says what if I can't he said well not from your family because you're cursed so instead get them from says Rashi M but they were also Canim they were also cursed says the but they didn't become slaves if the curse of becoming slaves came on you that means that there's something in you that you are out of control and you need a master now the purpose of that is only to help you become a better person elazar elzar domestic theist Rabbi he was he was considered an unbelievable teacher of Torah Abraham chose him to go and pick a wife for y he was he was great how come Abram never freed him because he understood that OT Asar had this in him that he needed external controls and if he had those external controls then he would be great but without them he wouldn't and so every one of us understand that at har we became we became slaves to God because we let who give us those controls to help us go on and live truly meaningful lives good jobis