18. MISHPATIM

Free Your Serfs, or Become a Serf

18. MISHPATIM

Rabbi Arthur Waskow, 2/2/2005

This week's Torah portion begins (Exod. 21: 1-2) with provisions limiting the nature of Israelite serfdom to a six-year period of indentured servitude. Serfs/servants are to be freed as the seventh year begins. Thus to

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