{"id":50713,"date":"2019-03-04T17:21:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=50713"},"modified":"2022-09-27T07:13:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T04:13:56","slug":"children-of-freed-slaves-slave-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/children-of-freed-slaves-slave-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of Freed Slaves – Slave Owners!?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhen your brother, an Israelite, shall be sold to you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The mitzvah is startling. Addressed to a nation, all children of freed slaves, it assumes a reality in which one of them can shift identities, moving from oppressed to oppressor, from one enslaved to one who enslaves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our visceral response is that this is not meant for me, that this is meant for someone darker, someone callous, someone who has not lived through what I have, was not raised the way I was. And sometimes this is true.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there is value in believing the possibility of \u201cwhen your brother shall be sold to you.\u201d We cannot eradicate evil by assuming that it is the purview of the depraved. Acting against oppression means understanding why otherwise decent, good human beings might act in evil ways. Acting against oppression means understanding not just the suffering of the afflicted but the motivations of the afflicter. It means understanding that we ourselves have the capacity to oppress, that in other circumstances we might be capable of acting like those perpetrating evil. If oppression is systematic then we do ourselves no favors by assuming that we are immune to its temptations. By pretending that oppression is something only the monstrous engage in we turn it into something supernatural that we have no power to solve–and worse, we blind ourselves to the ways in which we might fall prey to it ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google “imagine yourself as a slave,” and you will be faced with thousands of results. Google “imagine yourself as a slave owner” and you will find less than ten. Part of the mandate of Deuteronomy is to remember that you were a slave, to remember that experience, and to use that memory to help others in turn. But that mandate is matched by the mandate of \u201cwhen your brother shall be sold you\u201d\u2014remember that you too are capable of evil. Do not imagine that the suffering of your past inoculates you against perpetrating evil in your future.<\/span><\/p>\n

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