Just to level set:
Definition of "politically correct":"Politically correct" means using language and actions that avoid offending others, especially those relating to sex, gender, and race. It can also refer to policies or measures that are intended to avoid disadvantaging members of particular groups in society.
Synonyms include: considerate, diplomatic, inclusive, and respectful.
Antonyms include: insensitive, like a bull in a china shop, Michael E. Allen
Parashas Mishpatim comes directly after the (so-called) Ten Commandments have been given and received from Mount Sinai. The Ramban explains that the first verse of parashas Mishpatim is basically a prologue to set our point of view regarding the process of justice and court in Jewish law. Then we get to the second verse, which deals with purchasing a slave. A Jewish slave that is owned by a Jewish slave owner. Generally, when you hear people trying to explain how civilized and beautiful Torah law is, they do their best to skirt the (so-called) sacrifices and (well-called) slavery.
The Ramban says the Torah begins its legal treatise with the laws of a Jewish slave. Why? Because the freeing of a Jewish slave after seven years is reminiscent of the exodus of the Jewish nation from Mitzrayim, which is mentioned in the first of the Ten Commandments. Additionally, it is also a memorial to the creation of the world, as the slave going free from his Jewish master is a personal re-enactment of the original shabbos that capped creation. Also -- all this is the Ramban -- there is another seven, the jubilee year, which comes after seven shmita cycles and heralds the freeing of all Jewish slaves. This alludes to a profound סוד ימות העולם/secret of the ages of the world: Seven is the choicest of days, years, and shmitas.
I have no idea what any of that means. However, I see two things: being released from a human master -- even a Jewish master, about whom Chazal tell us that one who acquires a Jewish slave actually acquires a master for himself (because of the obligations the Torah puts on a master regarding the treatment of his Jewish slave) -- is something very fundamental to the way creation works.
But we see one more thing: slavery is important. We are adjured to remember that we were slaves in Mitzrayim daily and expound on it once a year at the seder. We can't be freed if we weren't slaves. How does one become a slave? Either he forgets/ignores that he heard at Har Sinai not to steal, or he forgets/ignores that he was commanded to have only HaShem as his master.
The beis din for my geirus took over three hours. What finally clinched the deal? When I expressed that my whole desire in becoming Jewish was to become an עבד השם/Servant of HaShem. I would like to suggest that our servitude in Mitzrayim was a "boot camp" in becoming a slave, solely so we could emerge from slavery to a human king to become servants of the Holy One, Blessed Be He. The mini/personal slave experiences are "refresher courses" in how to be an עבד השם/Servant of HaShem.
May we soon fully realize our potential to each become the עבד השם/Servant of HaShem we can be, and then return to our land for the final and complete redemption.
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