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עקידת יצחק — כי תקנה עבד עברי / שש שנים יעבד

Q (the cluster): Why open the civil laws specifically with the Hebrew slave? Why this order — monetary laws first? What links bein-adam-l'chavero to bein-adam-laMakom here? A (the unifying chiddush): The Torah leads with the eved Ivri to set the frame for all the mishpatim: a Jew's body is not ownable property but is fundamentally free, pledged ultimately to his Creator, so even servitude is bound

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עקידת יצחק

Akeidat Yitzchak 47:1

Q — Why open the civil laws specifically with the Hebrew slave? Why this order — monetary laws first? What links bein-adam-l'chavero to bein-adam-laMakom here?

A — The Torah leads with the eved Ivri to set the frame for all the mishpatim: a Jew's body is not ownable property but is fundamentally free, pledged ultimately to his Creator, so even servitude is bounded by six years and the seventh's release. By beginning civil law with the limits of one man's claim over another, the Torah roots all interpersonal law in the prior truth that man belongs to God — making the monetary laws an expression of avodas Hashem, not a separate domain.

יבאר אם העיון הוא בעבור המעש' או בהפך. וכן איך יאמר שהמלאך הוא בעבור האדם ואיך יהי' זה המאמר מגונה:

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