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Q&A- Card Games, Morality & Slavery

The Q & A with Rabbi Breitowitz Podcast

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The Torah Is Not Moral, God Forbid

The Torah tolerated institutions that are fundamentally not so moral, simply because you couldn't, people wouldn't listen. The other Mahalach is that slavery was a way of civilizing the brutal and paganism of an uncivilized world. A slave lived in a Jewish home, a slave observed many commandments, etc. It was a way to civilize the savage beast.

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