1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/mj-ravtorah March 2002, week 5
2 751 0_0_7_???@???29_Wed, 27 Mar 2002 04:43:04 EST679_- Shiur HaRav Soloveichik ZT?L on Hagadah and Concept of Avdus
(shiur date: 3/15/70. Nordlicht tapes 5194/5195. Thanks to Arnie Lustiger for providing the tapes.)
There are two aspects to slavery: 1) the juridical/political and 2) the typological/personalistic. Under the political/political, slavery is identical with a doctrine of totalitarian, or all inclusive, private property. It embraces the animate and inanimate, including mankind. The body of the slave belongs to someone other than the slave himself. Under the second aspect of slavery, slavery represents a class of people who think, feel and act (or react) in a distinct manner, thus reflecting a [...]