ABSTRACT לקוטי שיחות
When a person upholds one’s word even beyond the letter of the law, this shows that one does so because G-d commanded. Six years a person works the fields and might realize the true source of the growth of the ground, or might think that the blessing comes one’s own work. The seventh year provides the opportunity to fully realize the complete faith in HaShem’s causing the processes of the world.
שבת לה'
Jews can be sold as slaves to other Jews only since slave of a King is like the King. Verse has 2 parts (a general and a specific):
1. Jews are my slaves that I took out of Egypt
2. Jews are not to be sold by public auction
עבדי הם
In avodah, a non-Jewish slave is the part of one’s self that lacks feelings in his heart that need to be awakened; needs to be treated with kindness, not strictness. Intelligence can lead one to be strict to impart lessons; kindness dictates that a person be merciful and pursue justice. Great Mercy is shown by not overburdening your non-Jewish slave, and also, need to feed your slave and your animal prior to one’s own eating.
לעולם בהם תעבדו
THREE PERIODS OF YOVEL AND SHMITAH
[Chart omitted for brevity]
