Mishpatim Part 3 and 4 Weekly Torah Portion according to the Kli Yakar Exodus ch 21 vs 4 and 5 5776

[Music] okay good evening we are now in parat M that would be Exodus 21 verse he hey and I'm just turning the page myself here we go okay I'm going to read a few verses before even the oh you know what let's start again good evening we're now going to start in within that would be in Exodus chapter 21 we're going to go to verse four in the fle a car but I'll read some of the previous verses for example two when you buy when you will buy a Hebrew servant he shall work for 6 years and in the seventh he shall go to freedom without [Music] charge when you purchase this Jewish slave he should work for you for six years in the seventh year he goes out to freedom without any Ransom or any charge three if he come alone for example he's not married he should out alone so you came alone he goes out alone if he is married if he's the husband of a [Music] woman his wife should go out with him meaning the wife that he came in with of course she goes out when he is free if his master will give him a woman if his master shall give him a woman obot so if she gave birth right she bore to him children boys and girls so that woman will remain with her master and he goes out alone okay so I just want to practice this with some understanding here we are dealing with a case where the person was sold into slave ay in one of two ways either he was a thief and we're going to discuss the difference between a thief and a robber he was a Ghana as opposed to a gazan he was a thief we'll discuss the difference in a moment okay now if he was a thief and he stole something and he no longer had the um the item which he stole well he to pay and if he was a thief and he denied he was in denial and he hid the fact that he stole it and was caught so then he may pay double and if it was an animal it may be that he pays four or five times the amount but either case we're dealing with a guy who didn't have the money to pay back CU if he could pay it back or a family member could help him out to pay back he wouldn't be in his position of being sold by the baiton by the Jewish Court into slavery to pay off his debt number one and for um let's say um tun to make a fixing on his life this will be uh what we call you know the system in America in a prison system some call it either a punishment or it's a way to fix yourself so if we're dealing with the possibility that we don't have a prison system in Judaism but we're left with this situation where this person sto he deserves to be punished on one hand really all he has to do is pay back the the um the damages for what he stole but he doesn't have that so he needs some kind of reparation for himself not just to pay back but to also cure himself from his illness and his atonement for his sin so he sold it to slavery for 6 years that's one way of being sold into slavery there's another way and that is if someone is just down and out M he's really has nothing not not not even any food he has no shelter no food he has no way of making a living so a person like that can sell himself into slavery okay so that's what we're dealing with now another case we're talking about where the owner allows or gives a Canaanite female Canaanite slave woman to his newly purchased Jewish male slave and what's the purpose of that we're going to see a little bit further on but that's to have children now a single male a Jewish slave will not be allowed to be in this position that the owner can grant him this non-jewish slave woman to produce children with okay so we're dealing with only only a person who is married as we will also see as we get into this so we're going to start out with verse four which I believe we read and the cleart Begins by saying B we're dealing with a case at a time where he was previously married he was already married he was married originally it's only then specifically that it's permissible for his master to Grant him to give him this non Jewish female slave or servant called a sh now we're going to get into the reasons why why is it that it's only someone who's married there are some that say the reason is because if he was not married we are worried or concerned that maybe he will say at the end of his six years I love my shik my non-jewish wife but if he already married to a Jewish woman we're not so concerned that he will say that why because his soul has already cleaved and clung cleaved with love to this Jewish woman and we're not worried he's going to stick around and hang out and say as we will see later I want to be a slave forever because I love this woman and I don't want to leave her or I I love my children who were born from this non-jewish woman I don't want to leave them through my whole life he already has a life he has a Jewish woman that he's married to and he had develop a relationship with her a very deep and meaningful relationship and he's not willing to give that up and stick around just for the non-jewish woman and there are some that say the reason that we just explain that it's only a married man that it's permissible for the master to Grant this non-jewish slave woman to is since if he is married remember this guy's married he he's sto and he may have six kids or more who knows so what happens is what kind of Master is going to go to the slave market well he doesn't go to the slave market in this case he goes to the Baston and he purchases this Jewish slave for the sake of let's say also reparations he's he's helping to pay off his debt and in return he's going to get some labor remember the way Jewish slaves work are you're not allowed to treat your slave any worse than you would do anything yourself meaning you can't give him labor that is meaningless and if you only have one pillow you have to give him the pillow slaves are H are are taken care of pretty well but not only that think about it he comes and married and he's got six kids so the owner is going to take care of them as well that's a big burden so the fact that he is going to take the owner is going to take care of this slave Jewish slaves wife and children it's like crazy why would anybody want to to get involved in such a situation literally then he wouldn't be interested he wouldn't want they wouldn't want any Master to purchase and to enter his own head into such a burden by taking on the whole family I therefore parallel to this and maybe as a motivation or as a reward for taking care of this um person who sold himself into slavery or who was sold by the Bas in the Jewish court because he stoen couldn't pay back as a reward or as compensation or as motivation to take on such a burden the Torah gave him the Merit that he's able to give over this non-jewish female slave to produce to give birth from from her more slaves which is a commodity which can be you know worth a lot of money instead of going down to the shook instead of going down to the slave market and purchasing he basically has a a stud so to speak an alpha male that is able to produce more slaves through the owner's own slave woman cuz the owner can't be with a slave woman but the Jewish slave can be if he's already married but if this slave man this Jewish slave man is not not married meaning previously to coming into slavery har so obviously many more people would purchase and he would be let's say a single guy that that the own Master only has to take care of him and he'll produce um whatever it is that the owner asked him to do so that's a better purchase and more people will be likely to purchase a single mail so to offset that meaning if a man comes in married and has already a wife and children so then the benefits uh the produce of the shif the little Sligh babies will then belong to the owner perhaps there's also other additional um benefits well think about this so if he was never married right what's going to do during that time he's not going to have any children well let's say for example right if he was not married he was going to have non-jewish children so because of his his negation of the Mitzvah the Commandment of be fruitful and multiply so now if the guy was married is he's obviously going to fulfill his commands by being with his Jewish wife so the Torah itself is not that concerned for whatever involvement he has with the non-jewish slave woman but if this Jewish male slave it was not married so the P then certainly he will not have Jewish children he will not have any children at all we're not going to allow him to but if he would have been allowed to be with this non Israel non-jewish woman he would not have Jewish children be and all of his seed gets wasted with this non-jewish woman okay so that's verse four now we're going to go to see verse 5 so verse 5 in Hebrew says like this he says the servant the servant says but if the servant says to the master I'm sorry now we're going to start verse 5 but if the servant shall say I love my master my wife and my children I will not go free I'll read verse six as well then his master shall bring him to the judges and and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost and his master shall bore through his ear with an owl a WL and he shall serve him forever in Hebrew if theid will surely say I love my master that's and my wife that's and my children and I'm not going anywhere for free I'm not leaving elim so the master shall bring him toward to the judges and they bring him to the door post or the door oh elza or to the doorpost the muza is the partion we put on the door post but it's the same name as the doorpost itself and the master bore shall bore through his ear with the owl a WL and he shall serve him forever okay so what do we have going on here he starts off by explaining what is the reason that we bore his ear the reason for the boring of the ear says regarding the ear it was the ear that heard on Mount Si The Ten Commandments and one of those are 10 statements and one of those statements was do you shall not steal this is brought down in the we don't have the whole quote here but the idea was the same ear that heard the Commandments from God's own mouth went and stole he shall be bored meaning the ear that heard the ear shall be bored meaning marked so there's some really good questions here and we start off by saying they were questioned about this why didn't the Basin immediately bore his ear upon his being sold or selling himself meaning if what we were going now really dissect the words of rakai he's trying to explain why is it that the ear is bored because it was the ear that her don't steal so why are we only boring the year after 6 years of of service and only then when he decides he wants to serve his master forever that we remind him then that you heard in Haren the ear that heard Hari don't steal and that same ear is going to be bored it's a little bit uh counterintuitive it's a great question question should the ear have been bored immediately upon his being sold into slavery it seems more logical just Pleasant to explain it in the following way that's why we're going to explain that is why he is Afflicted or hit in the a like it's brought down in the gamorra in babama on D 79b why is it that the Torah is more strict severe in its punishment towards a thief than towards a robber I mentioned earlier we're going to discuss the difference between a thief a ghav and a robber who is a gazan so what's the difference and this is really counterintuitive if you ask me so the ghif is covert the ghif tries to steal in a way that nobody knows no human beings nobody knows that he's doing it right he hides he digs himself in he comes in the middle of the night the uh the gazon the robber so he'll come in the middle of the day he'll come in in your face he'll hold you up with a gun it could be an armed robbery or whatever it is it's forced th type of thievery as opposed to a sneaky way of thievery so this forced way of thevery is in your face not afraid necessarily of the people he's stealing from so that's the question so why is the Torah more strict meaning that the GU the GH has to pay twice tce or even in case certain animals four or five times whereas the golin only pays back what he sto what what's the difference that the one who steals covertly in a hidden way he's not equating God with people meaning he's more afraid of people than he is of God God's looking and knowing all the time but people he wants to make sure they're not watching he's more afraid of them than he is of god whereas the gazan the one who steals openly he does equate he has the same level of fear like meaning he has no fear of either so it's a little bit I mentioned counterintuitive when it's the fact that he does not the G the thief is not so concerned about God because it's as if he knows he's he's understood that there's an eye above that sees or supposed to see but it doesn't meaning he maybe he recognized as a God but the God has no power he is not able to see eye above that's as if it doesn't see and an ear above meaning an all knowing ear yet cannot hear therefore he gets this lash or he gets hit in the ear now it's a good question why the ear we just got done saying about the eye that's you know the allseeing eye they cannot see and the all knowing ear they cannot hear but yet we focusing only in the ear again just to reiterate this was why because his sin was against the all knowing ear that could not hear yet we are giving him the lashes in the ear or the boring of the ear so that's the question now we can answer the question l the truth is why is it the ear that's going to be afflicted or bored than any other sin we say he sinned with his ear right Revelation The Ten Commandments don't steal but there's a lot of other limbs he could have been um you know running to do a sin he could be using his hands to do a sin there's so many limbs that you can use to sin with why is it that the ears bored more than any other not just limb but for this particular sin such as stealing so according to the words of which we quoted earlier that it was the ear that her her SII don't steal and yet he went ahead and he stole therefore the ear needs to be bored shouldn't it be that upon every sin that one does no matter what limb it is either that limb or the ear it's also the ear heard at Hari all the Ten Commandments and all 613 Commandments during the 40 years in the desert it's the ear that heard so why is it only Lo TIG no that you uses as an example shouldn't it be any sin go ahead and bore the ear no it's not really such a question because if that was the case remember his original statement was not his original statement sorry but in the gamor it mentioned also about the eye that saw this is the reason he said that the eye the all knowing eye doesn't really see so also maybe we should give him a a type of wound in the eye well we can't do that because the in if you go ahead and knock the eye of the slave also you're going to Blind him and he certainly will not be able to serve his master at all well what about the guy who sold himself because of his situation his financial situation was so down and out so he sold himself there's another reason for that the the whole time that he is considered a slave to other slaves we're going to see soon a verse that talks about us being very special slaves of God that the Jewish people are royal slaves here in this case since the whole time that he becomes a slave of other slaves so he's required to lean his ear towards listening to The Voice of his master not God in this case whoes and he removes his ear from listening to the voice of God since there are the authority of others on him we're talking about you have God is the sole Authority and the person puts himself was sold into slavery therefore he's a slave of a slave a slave of a slave of God but he's now listening to the human Master because those are at the time that he is in slavery is the priority and he is just denying listening to God which is not the C not the case if he was sold on account of his his thievery so we're making a little bit of the difference here between someone who was sold into slavery because of he was to because he so he get he stole out of free will but in the end for whatever reason whether it was lost he consumed it he got ruin someone else stole from him doesn't matter the fact that he stole he's to pay it back and he can't pay it back that's more what we call onus that was a force situation as opposed to the case we just talked about where someone who sold himself into slavery true he was down and out maybe accepted that but he could have perhaps done something about it but in our case where he was sold now our case he was sold out of um the inability to pay back the th he was forced in the situation because we know that the B is the one that sold him nevertheless still proving a difficulty well shouldn't it make sense then that the GH the thief should be bored immediately in his ear even if he can pay off what he sto return it and pay the another 100% or pay you know for the animals four or 5% why isn't he bored then if we're using the original statement that year that her har should be bored because it went ahead and stole so why are we worrying about after 6 years what when his determination was I love my wife I love my kid kids and I want to serve forever and only then we bore his ear so too the person who was sold himself he should also be bored in his ear the time that he s the answer to the matter is we don't judge two people on two different cases at the same time he might have done two things and we're going to take the most severe thing and he's going to have the most severe punishment he's not going to get both punishments okay if it's death and payment he only gets death he's he's pure he is exempt in most cases in almost every case from the other judgment from the most lenient judgment or more lenient judgment only gets the most severe however when it comes to anybody who steal he s in this case a thief if he has the money we already know the verse says in chap 22:3 that he has to pay double and he goes ahead he pays the double and that's it he's finished there's no obligation any further but if the case is he didn't have the money and the court sold him on account of his thevery they didn't have to pay couldn't pay back un it sounds like the the Onish the punishment is the slavery and so too similarly with the one who sold himself on account of his pressured financial situation so too he should be considered onus he would also be considered forced because of this horrible s this great pressur situation he's in which brought him to this [Music] point however the bottom line is that no matter which case we're looking at both cases the Torah still gave both of them place to leave in Freedom after 6 years once the six years are finished they could have gone garu and going back to freedom and then there's no pressure at all at this point it's with a total Free Will and an open heart and a willing heart that they can just walk walk out and there's no pressure at all but what happens when he says what I'm about to say what if the the slave says wait I love my master I love my wife and my children I'm not going anywhere I'm not going out to [Music] Freedom the is his free will he has chosen to remain a slave of [Music] slaves and he's removing his own ear from listening to the words of God Almighty and it's then that the law would apply that he must be afflicted in the ear and the one who sold Who Sold because of his fever y he also needs a punishment on after after the fact from his slavery why cuz what are we saying we're about to say this is all works retroactively at the end of six years it's automat it's like revealed to us at this moment at the end of this year at the end of six years that the the six years that he just worked didn't serve as a punishment at all because his choice is still to remain a slave because we see in the verse in in Deuteronomy 15 verse 16 because basically he was thinking that it was good for him and with you right for the own master and for [Music] himself so where would any punishment be for the original sin that he did of not stealing of transgressing the Ten Commandment do not steal and also for the concept if you look in VRA in Leviticus 2555 it says hasem himself says you the Jewish people you are my slaves you serve me so there's two sins here that were being violated once he besides he wants to remain in the care of his master forever so it's retroactively showing l no don't steal he was never punished for he's actually enjoying it why else would he want to as we said it was good for him and good for you and upon the sin of being a servant of a servant okay that's why he is Afflicted in the ear in this way he's able to be exempt from the punishment any further of these two sins because one punishment is relating to both sins and this reason is enough for and this also answers up why he is not bored in the ear immediately right even according to his words because we only know at the end of six years what his true intentions were or are and why is the boring of the ear specifically done by the door post or by the door because it's after those six years that the Torah opens up an opening for him to leave From Slavery to Freedom the door is what re is what revolves or turns around on the hinges and the lazy person does not want to leave from the open door this is just like someone who sits in a prison and they open for him the door whether it's of his cell or of the prison itself and they say go free run away Escape for your soul so he chooses what he is good and he imagines all the good things that he had that he could come to him so he wants to remain in prison it's a sickness and many people as soon as they get released they go back and do a crime just to get back put back into jail they don't know how to deal and they know that they have a warm bed and three meals day perhaps all the cigarettes they want and they are back in prison or they never leave therefore he remains with the door wide open and doesn't want to [Music] leave and this is the reason why the law is that he should be bored in the ear by the doorway or on the door post itself what's written in the it's engraved it's basically embedded in the par itself what does it say on the and you shall love the Lord your God who what does he say he says something very different he says I I love my wife and my children and he is exchanging or converting the love that he has for instead for the love for his wife the non-jewish woman that's why he gets the board B by B in the ear by the doorway or by the M furthermore by every free person a non-slave he has the ability to fulfill what's written in Mish in Proverbs [Music] 834 in English praiseworthy is the person who listens to me to hasten to my doors every day to the doorpost of my entrance ways so this is talking about someone who runs to the sh runs to the B mid runs to the synagogue runs to do God's will to to guard what is written in the okay so whereas the guy who hastens who runs quickly to the doors of his master not the God and he removes his ear from listening to the word of God then hastens to the doors of his master that's why he is bored over there say through your own bad choices right you to remain here you will not move from here any further so that's why it's done by the door it's as a reminder this is where this he's living with his choices you made the choice now live with it there's another reason for the boring of the ear this is going to get a little bit mystical metaphysical 7A so any person that marries a woman who's not fitting for him meaning she's they're not my team there's not there's something strange about this relationship you know that there's not going to be it's not going to work out yet Perhaps maybe she has money he has money but so anyway he marries this woman for her money and it it's I mean if if you're my team that's fine but if you're not my team you Mar for your money it says that Elijah the prophet ties him up and God comes and wrotes of the word for boring him with the owl but here we're going to understand it means lashes so either way elah who ties him up and and theem afflicts him someh even the rash explains Ro rash explains as lashes they they they lash him with lashes lar the C says it's more proper in my eyes to say what I'm about to say we're talking about the man who marries a woman who's not proper for him who not fit for him he will get I don't know metaphysically he will get this kind of a boring the Govern and this concept we learn from this type of a slave that we just talked about where it says I love my wife and what is the category of his wife she is the non-jewish slave woman who certainly not fitting for him to marry even though the Torah actually gave him permission gave the master permission to hand over to him this non-jewish woman this non-jewish slave woman nevertheless spite of this the Torah certainly gave him permission to remove him gave him the opportunity to remove himself from the shame and this blemish of being involved with this non-jewish woman for the last 6 years will it take me men to remove himself from it towards Freedom therefore when he says I love my wife who's this non-jewish save woman I don't want to leave her so then it's as if it's compared to as if at that very moment meaning at the end of the six years with a full free will a good heart I mean not a good heart but a willing heart that he wanted to marry this woman who was not proper for him out came therefore he will be lashed in the ear or red in the ear there's no more fitting limb right there's no limb that is more fitting to feel this shame than the ear itself Turn the page that heard all this type of slander and these negative reports what are people saying about him this is your wife who is not fit and what are they going to say about the kids the kids aren't even Jewish they have a they're blemished and therefore from here we see comes out the same concept or d uh maybe even Judgment of getting this bore this um I don't know what limit this one we'll talk about here but that he would get lashed so to speak and I think we're talking metaphysically but nevertheless this is the result of marrying a being involved for that additional after the 6 years what else um is going to take place in your relationship with her as long as you remain a slave yes and here we're talking about a person who marries a woman who's not fit for him forget the fact that he's a slave just a regular guy marries a woman a Jewish woman for his for her money so these will be the metaphysical result of having children who are perhaps there's another reason for the boring of the year because really he should have gotten lashes or should have been Afflicted with his whole body but the Torah had pity on him and he's going to get lashed he's going to get Afflicted in one particular limb that is equal in weight or in importance to the whole body think about it a second someone who cuts off the hand of his friend okay it says ey for ey tooth for tooth we're not we don't do that we give financial compensation so someone who cut off the hands of his friend he has to give him the value of a hand see know someone unfortunately you know God forbid blinded somebody he's no no he's to give him the value of his eye but if someone made someone death no to make kouo the obligation is to pay for his whole body so we see the equation that the ear is equal to the whole body and that's brought down in the muser of okay this is going to get really metaphysical and spooky aside from all the reasons we just mentioned there is within this concept A very good hint this a little bit of play on The Words the word blind with is is a little bit related to the word like Hebrew with in is supposed to sorry I so which means blind and I which is a Hebrew so to all those blind amongst the Jews meaning being spiritually blind people who are in denial so this is a very good hint to all those who are blind in the encampment of the [Music] Hebrews this people who work who struggle all of their days they carry things on their shoulders they're just involved in hard labor all types of Labor and all kinds of suffering and all kinds of pains in order to achieve great wealth or many Properties or many possessions uh that you can even imagine and it's through it's those purchases through the purchases in order to purchase he basically sold himself into slave in forever and he claims he's convinced he claims that there's no K does have a choice by necessity he needs all this money all this silver and gold for the sake of his wife and children and all the increase it's only for their sake and he's not even looking towards any kind of retirement he's not looking towards getting out of this slavery he wants to right he's not looking to remove himself towards Freedom he doesn't even know what freedom is he he's so blind he's not even looking to get out and he reasons to himself and he accepts upon himself all this suffering just like we talked about the verse where the slave at the end of six years says I love my wife and my children and I am not going out for Freedom well guess what it says in peros chapter 6 Mish yes is a type of Engraving and we know that the stone tablets were engraved but the same word for engrave just a different valorization is really it's so don't read Graven but read it as Freedom you find Freedom through the Commandment through the law through the L through the tablets because of his connection to the Pains of a man because of the love for his wife and his child would it be called this slave who decides he wants to stay on forever he he's a bored slave he's a slave who has been afflicted cuz his entire life this man did not remain quiet until at the end he's already finished he finishes all the vanity of his life all the days of his life all the years of his life were all for nothing thing and when he dies his wife and his children will not escort him well I mean obviously they will to a certain point they only escort him until the rim or the lip the edge of his grave and from that point on you separate from them they're not going to help you any further they're not going to escort you any further it says and I have it in front of me and it's this concept that here it is there are three lovers that a man has in his life and what are they they are children and grandchildren that's one Bono his money his financial resources that he accumulated and properties that's two and his good actions so basically he talks about the first two don't help you answer your death whereas the third do okay so thee part continues therefore we talk about a regular slave right what does he have to do so it says eloh right that [Music] the that the master brings him towards the judges they has to be judged this is really spooky what does it mean that you now at the end of 6 years he says I want to live in perpetuity as a slave so they bring him to judge this is hinting the situation that every man finds himself into because in the future there will be a judgment day and there won't be any help from you from your wife or your children and while you in their life in your own lifetime said I love my wife and I love my children well they didn't love you that much in fact it was the opposite they have abandoned you as soon as you pass through the as the idea of P here it says in the beginning in brait right that sin crouches at the door and from that point on from the Del onward once you cross that threshold so they will not enter with you and save you at all they're not going to be on your side because they're not present is this is a great h t part of the most secret um fundamentals of the Holy Torah shat shalom go