Slavery and Graduation

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more Liberty and that means to do whatever you want whenever you want to do it and that's more Liberty freedom in Judaism which is you know we're going into What's called the time of our freedom is it's it's kind of interesting because our sages say there's no free person rather than one who has taken on the Yoke of the Torah like that's the free person the person who takes on the Yoke of Torah but anyone who's you know coming from a non-observant background and sees an observant Jew is going to call them anything but free we have a dictated lifestyle that's a dictated from without meaning it's coming from Torah and and and minim and it's dictated from without and it's dictated like all the time from modani to washing the hands to the to uh you know the different prayers and and we got to do this stuff like we got to get rid of the helmets that's not like that's not a choice God's not saying you know you get to choose this stuff you got to do it like it's a commandment and it and not to mention the fact that how much free will do you have when the Torah gives very strong depictions of the consequences Torah does not you know hide the consequence it says it very strongly what would be the consequence of us not keeping Hal and yet we're going into What's called the time of our freedom now you could go if you really want to go super simple Freedom means we're no longer in bondage I mean that's what every YouTube video on pay talks about you went from slavery into Freedom From Slavery to Freedom and so that's like a super simple definition and probably a good one because we did we Wen slave for a long time we got out and if you look at our history and we have celebrated that that freedom like they but on the other hand Torah allows for slaves you're allowed to actually have a slave and so I don't know how to deal with that exactly except that that it we were living in a society where we're having someone indentured to meaning having someone's handiwork completely owned by you was that's the way things went back then like this was like and also I think but only for maximum of seven years that's a Jewish slave yeah the I think it was such that there wasn't in those days like government and Welfare and like people on the Dole who could like get taken care of so sometimes it wasn't so bad to be a slave for a Jew to be a slave would be pretty bad because we're only supposed to be a SL slave to God but for a human being who doesn't have that kind of relationship with God to be a slave to a person do you know what it means to be a slave we ones added up all the laws of keeping a Slave versus all the conditions of living on kibuts in Israel and the slave won and we actually brought it out to people we said choose we didn't say one's a slave one's Kuts but we said choose which one you want and there there were all these things slaves get like like the owner has to really take care of those slaves like he has to care for them now in a society where you could easily die or starve or be killed or be protected by a wealthy person who has who has slaves no slaves means you're also living with your wife and kids you're you're uh I mean you're basically all set it's just what is a slave a slave is someone who does not own his own handiwork meaning he he can't just do whatever he wants to do could be the owner said you know listen what you do between 1 p.m. and 4 4 p.m. is your business you know but at 4 p.m. I want you in the fields you know working but they're fed I think they're even fed first before anyone else and all these other things get taken care of for them now it's a big deal for a Jew who's free meaning free to serve God it's a big deal for a Jew who's free but free to serve God to be enslaved to a human being such that so much so that if a Jew winds up owing money he has to go work for that person now do you know that that a Jew becomes a slave to somebody owes money to so let's say for example I owed Simka money over here and you know I owe him 10 grand and I don't have the money but I really owe it to him meaning that the court said boom you you owe this guy money so now I got to do 10 grand worth of work by him I do not own my handiwork till the 10 Grand's up when 10 grand up I'm off the hook but till the 10 grand up I'm his slave and and that's the way it worked back then that you you you would actually work work for someone as their slave when if you um but if you decided that you wanted to stay I mean in the seventh year you go free sorry I didn't mention that seventh year you go free so let's say let's say I become a slave for four years but it's in the there's only three years left till this sabatical year so even though I owe four I go free on the after three even two or one meaning you can only keep a slave until the sabatical year and so it's a good time to get you know if you got enslaved because you owe someone 10 grand a year before the sabatical year you had good timing but you could see how people could easily misuse this and I wonder if there there might have been renic loopholes but I don't know if they were meaning you understand if someone specifically rips someone off knowing that he's only going to be enslaved for a month and a half if what someone stole and need to give back and it just passed one year and became so if he go out stays uhuh it's an argument theor okay so mean I'm sure they have stuff set up for Miss people misusing it but if I choose to stay enslaved to sim so then you know what happens they pierce my ear and I stay a slave to them till the 50th year now the 50th year could be in five years or sorry in seven in eight years could be the 50th year meaning every seven years 49th year and then the 50th the the 50th which is called the YoVille or the Jubilee year could be in another set of seven years meaning then it could be the Jubilee there then i' for sure go out every slave goes out no matter what they chose you can't stay after the 50th year anyway but why do I get my ear pierced you know why I get my ear pierced what's your name Kim Kim why do I get my ear pierce um as a sign that you're enslave yeah why why oh why why is that the sign so that you don't borrow money from other people should be external sign like watch out for this guy I'm well now I'm enslaved so it doesn't matter anymore he he has to pay for my life it's very funny people think slavery is like the worst thing in the world but like you think you're totally off the hook on you're sa and the by the way the tman says that um um right that's that a slave likes his how do you say that can you help me with that one sir how do you say should do yeah it's really weird word to say free but a slave likes his freedom well a lot of Jews didn't want to leave Egypt because thought they didn't want to well that was something that was another issue but but you for example you realize what you what kind of obligation hold you think what you got ahead of you think what you got ahead of you what if what if you're what if you were just working for you know enslaved to some like Daddy warbuck guy living in the slave quarters Wife and Kids he's basically trust you to the end of the world because you're trustworthy so he's basically do what you want just you know be at work at these hours you realize you'd have it pretty good You' be pretty set do you realize what's going to be on your shoulders over the next 20 years 30 years so it says that a slave actually actually appreciates his freedom because he doesn't have to deal with all the stuff that we have to deal with you know cuz everything's on everything's going to be on your master you're going to providing for My Wife and Kids everything he has to provide your wife your kids your kids' marriages everything that's all on him so slavery all of a sudden doesn't sound that bad unless it's outside of Judaism meaning the Torah commands the Torah commands a slave owner to take tremendous care of his servants whereas Judaism sorry whereas by Gentiles slavery could be or would be crazy crazy harsh to the point of like bamboo cages and all kinds of insane things people have gone through and our slavery in Egypt was very very bad now I'll leave you with this this this is what I really want to share is that I wanted to to look at our slavery in Egypt as the University of slavery uos okay or uee the University of Egypt it's but it's the University of slavery when you see us leaving the sea like the sea parts and we're going through the sea imagine have you ever been to any of you ever been to a University graduation the the dean of the schools wearing the super funky cap and gown like amazing design color and stuff while everyone else is usually in blue with a blue capping gown and but the the Deans were in the Super funky looking one it's really nice and I want you to imagine Moses wearing the dean's C and gown and we're all wearing the blue cap and gown because we're the graduates of the University of slavery and right before you go through the splitting of the sea they tell you this when you graduate University they say shake right uh hand left Shake right because they hand you the diploma in your left hand and you shake the right hand it's they're processing so many people like this the dean's handing the diploma and you shake with your right hand to the dean unless you're a f girl and then you you don't shake his hand and so anyway hand left Shake right imagine it's Moses handing you a diplom and you open up the diplom and it says you hereby graduate you know with honors slavery like you're you are you are a decorated slave meaning you have you have gotten the a first prize as the top slave and now that you have this degree called slavery go serve God go serve a being you can't see you can't touch you can't taste you can't hear go be a servant of God throughout the ages I me have you guys ever thought about the fact that we're enslaved what do you need it for seriously M what is the point of us ever being enslaved God's God God can do whatever he wants there's was there any reason for us to get enslaved all those years what's the point of it all we you ever thought about it so what's the point of it well I'll give you a think about it from God's perspective it's now the year since Adam we're now in the year um let's say we're in the year 2000 Abraham's already born he was born in 1948 after Adam and you've had failure after failure after failure Adam and Eve failure generation to follow failure till Noah he decides to destroy the world total failure saves the world through the ark immediately Tower battle failure all the way to Abraham's generation where the whole world's idolators fail it's 2,000 years of one solid failure of creation because what was the point of creation what's the point of creation have relationship with God yeah to have a relationship with God and it fails for 20 Generations 10 Generations Adam to Noah 10 Generations Noah to Abraham compl complete failure ah put the family of Jacob into transgenerational slavery you know what it is transgeneration slavery if you're born the grandkid of the grand kid the grand the great grandkid of a slave are you a slave no your whole mindset is servants service you're a servant you're a slave you don't even know you're enslaved you're so enslaved and what greater slavery is is a slavery where you don't even realize you're enslave but you're a Slave and then in 2018 you'll find a bunch of holy girls wearing way more clothing than is sold in most stores you know which is you holy girls in this class and you know what's with you girls like don't you know anything about fashion and style you know where where' you get where did you even find a store that sells clothing like this and the and the answer is that you're still serving God you're still serving God you don't care what the Fashions are it's irrelevant to you what's relevant to you is is that is that you're dressed modestly because you're part of a tradition of servants you're God's handmade you're still a you're still a servant and so that's and that's for us is freedom so fre meaning you're always serving someone so I'll end with a story I was standing outside a building in Los Angeles I was holding a cash box which is probably not a great idea but uh I was holding a cash box because they asked me to close the event at aor in Los Angeles and I'm standing in this Alleyway talking to two students and both students felt like they really one was from mag from a station tour and they both felt like they had not really spent the time they should have spent in yiva and they should really go back and so my job's what to close of the deal like yes you should go back and get these guys out of LA and back to is it was back when people used to come to Yeshiva and become Bas you guys know there was a whole period of time like that you know that there was this whole amazing wave of like balich Chua so they were guys who like somehow got away and like we have to put them back in the oven to like bake a little longer cuz they they had they left you know kind of Half Baked all of a sudden three big gangsters come down the alley where I am and I I'm holding the cash box on like saying well if we're getting staked out I better at least put the cash box across the alley in the Asia office so I start heading around one of these students cars I go around the car one of the gangsters comes my way the other two go that way and next thing I know I got a gun in my stomach and the other two have guns in their stomach and we are and they and then the guy brings me back to the other guys takes all takes cash box takes all this all our stuff everything searches out the guy's car takes his stuff but then it gets really scary he puts us down on our hands and knees on our faces like on the ground you know down on our hands and knees and they put the guns to the back of our heads for full assassination style deaths and and I'm thinking like I can't believe I'm going to die like this it's ridiculous and the but just then a car drives down the alley and you know they're busted basically so they run they just run and we don't get killed police came later and said uh said that they know who they are meaning we explained everything and they're like we know exactly who they are we've been following them for a month and you're the first victims that were not killed the first victim every single night from a mon they killed their victim except for you guys and the miracle was the car a car like literally drove right right by us and saw them like he slowed down going like whoa these kids are about to get killed and they uh and they because of that they ran and so we were the first three people not first people not killed by these guys in a month they found the guys by the way I almost had to leave Israel to go U what's it called Tes no witness protection notify identify identify but the other two guys had no problem identifying them and I totally repressed that's what they look like for the life of me I could not describe it so anyway um I you guys heard of PTSD post-traumatic stress you think I had a little PTSD after that do you think what do you think I did at red lights before I left La what do you think I was doing at red lights no I would stop check traffic I'd stay at the red light but if a car pulled up next to me and there was any chance to get across without getting hit by an oncoming car the other direction I just zoom across every light I ran every red light because there I could not sit it was the daytime I would look and see it's I'm not this guy's not going to kill me but at night time I would just run the red light I mean I'd stop make sure no cars and then I'd run the red light like that's weird that's not normal behavior that this like it makes no sense but there was nothing I could do I was crazy so you know how I got over my PTSD when I realized that you're going to serve somebody meaning I was down on my hands and knees in front of these monsters or I can be down on my hands KN was right before rashash or I can be down on my hands and knees before God you're always going to be serving somebody be serving the dollar you could be serving Fashions you could be serving all kinds of things in the end we're here to serve God sh them everybody may you only bow down to the Creator please don't do that AR you know I hate it he loves it stop stop