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21:2 – When you acquire “eved ‘ivri,<\/em>\u00a0a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; in the seventh year he shall go free, without payment.<\/span><\/p>\n

With some of the Tanakh\u2019s central legislation regarding slavery, this chapter features the word \u2018eved<\/em>, \u201cslave,\u201d a total of seven times. \u2018Eved<\/em> comes from the root \u05e2-\u05d1-\u05d3, \u2018ayin-v-d<\/em>, which has a range of meanings covering \u201cwork, labor, service.\u201d (Note, the female form for slave is not from this root, but has two different possibilities: amah<\/em>, appearing four times in this chapter, and in other contexts, shifchah<\/em>). <\/span><\/p>\n

Slavery in Egypt, the \u201cbeit \u2018avadim<\/em>,\u201d the house of slavery,\u201d or bondage, of last chapter\u2019s Decalogue, was the defining oppression of the Jewish people. But of course this root can be used in quite positive connotations as well. For instance in the realm of physical labor, Genesis chapter 2, God\u2019s original command regarding the Garden, was \u201cle’ovdah uleshomrah<\/em>,\u201d to work it and watch it (or \u201cserve and preserve\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cService\u201d has a seemingly different range of connotations. In the saying that the \u201cworld stands on three things: on Torah, and on \u05e2\u05d1\u05d5\u05d3\u05d4, <\/span>‘avodah<\/span><\/em>, and on <\/span>gemilut chasadim<\/span><\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/i> (deeds of loving kindness – Avot 1:2)\u2013 \u2018avodah<\/em> there means service to God, and as practiced in the Temple. And service implies servants: the names Ovadiah<\/em> in Hebrew, and Abdallah in Arabic, both mean \u201cservants to God.\u201d But do it with a smile: \u2018ivdu et hashem besimchah<\/em>\u201d \u201cserve God with joy\u201d (Psalm 100).<\/span><\/p>\n

Yehudah Halevi summed up the traditional view succinctly: \u201c\u2018Ovdei hazman, \u2018ovdei \u2018avadim hem; rak \u2018eved Hashem hu levad chofshi<\/em>.\u201d Meaning: \u201cSlaves of time are slaves of slaves, only a slave of God is truly free.\u201d Hear this line in a lush and haunting musical setting, written and <\/span>performed by Israeli singer Eti Ankeri<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two physical and spiritual sides aren\u2019t so very far apart from one another, however. The English words “work” and “worship” also share the same etymology, as do “cult” and “cultivate.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The contemporary use of this root has a number of manifestations. When we speak of the employee-employer relationship, it is \u201cyachasei \u2018oved-ma\u2019avid<\/em>.\u201d The Labor Party is mifleget Ha\u2019avodah<\/em>. Likewise, clearly if what one does in a \u201claboratory\u201d is \u201clabor\u201d then it makes sense to call it a \u201cma\u2019abadah<\/em>\u201d in Hebrew. Another form is \u201cme\u2019abed<\/em>\u201d and when modified by \u201cmazon<\/em>\u201d is a food processor, and by \u201ctamlili<\/em>\u201d (from \u201cmilah<\/em>\u201d, \u201cword\u201d) is a word processor. <\/span><\/p>\n

One interesting modern adaptation (\u2018ibud<\/em>) of a traditional phrase with the word \u201c\u2018avodah<\/em>\u201d is \u201c\u2018avodah zarah<\/em>.\u201d In religious parlance the phrase means \u201cforeign worship,\u201d i.e., idolatry. There is an entire tractate of the Talmud with this name that discusses idol worship. 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