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Unshackling Our Interpretive Practices: Rereading Rabbinic Slavery

JL;DR SUMMARY Lehman and Wasserman critically examine the portrayal of slavery in Jewish sacred texts, revealing a stark moral contradiction between the Jewish community's contemporary repudiation of slavery and its historical legitimization in Torah and rabbinic literature. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TalmudJewish LawJewish EthicsSlaveryEducationMoralityRabban GamlielRabbinic LiteratureInterpretationTavi

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