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5:9,11 – Let heavier work “avodah<\/em>” be laid upon the men; let them keep at it and not pay attention to deceitful promises\u2026\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>You must go and get the straw yourselves wherever you can find it; but there shall be no decrease whatever “be’avodatchem<\/em>” \u00a0in your work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When Simeon the Righteous, said (in Avot 1:2) that the world stands on three things: on Torah, and <\/span>avodah<\/span><\/em>, and <\/span>gemilut chasadim<\/span><\/em> (deeds of loving kindness) \u2013 by <\/span>avodah<\/em> <\/span>he didn’t mean hard labor. He meant service \u2013 of the kind to God, and as practiced in the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\n

Avodah<\/span><\/em> means at least two things. It can mean service, as in <\/span>avodat hashem<\/span><\/em>, serving God, but also serving people, as in the volunteering program, Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps (see avodah.net).<\/span><\/p>\n

But it also means work, as in labor: regarding the Garden (of Eden), God commanded Adam <\/span>le’ovdah uleshomrah<\/span><\/em>, to work it and watch it. The English words “work” and “worship” share the same etymology as well (similar to “cult” and “cultivate”). Likewise, the Israeli Labor Party is called Avodah.<\/span><\/p>\n

But even with just the meaning of physical labor, the concept has two different, in fact opposite, connotations. The first is the positive one (as in the Garden): work as an expression of positive, creative contribution to the world. <\/span><\/p>\n

The second is the one we meet here in this chapter. For the root of avodah<\/em>, \u05e2-\u05d1-\u05d3, ‘ayin-b-d, is also the root of avdut<\/em>, slavery. The sort of enforced labor that as the hyper-cynical sign says at the entrance to Auschwitz, \u2013 work that makes one \u201cfree\u201d (“arbeit macht frei”). We all know what sort of freedom that was.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tragedy is that real, good, meaningful work actually can be liberating, but here we\u2019re talking about subjugation. \u00a0When we sing on Pesach <\/span>avadim hayinu le-far’oh bemitzrayim<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> we were <\/span>avadim<\/span><\/em> to Pharaoh in Egypt: we were “slaves” \u2013 both slaving for him slavishly, and servants serving him in a servile way. 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