{"id":12461,"date":"2025-12-16T21:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12461"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:06:41","slug":"if-you-buy-a-hebrew-slave","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/if-you-buy-a-hebrew-slave\/","title":{"rendered":"407. If You Buy a Hebrew Slave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May 1959<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>BaHar<\/em>, Rabbi Elazar started, \u201c\u2018If you buy a Hebrew slave, six years he will work,\u2019 etc. This is so because everyone in Israel who was circumcised has a holy&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>&nbsp;[recollection] in him, and he has rest during a&nbsp;<em>Shmita<\/em>&nbsp;[a once-every-seven-years remission of land-cultivation], for this&nbsp;<em>Shmita<\/em>&nbsp;is his, to rest in it. This is called \u2018the Sabbath of the earth,\u2019 and there is certainly freedom and rest in it. As the Sabbath is rest for everyone, it is rest for everyone, rest for the spirit and rest for the body.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should understand why specifically one who was circumcised has rest on the&nbsp;<em>Shmita<\/em>, and what it means that there is rest for the body, too, on the&nbsp;<em>Shmita<\/em>. We should also understand what is written in&nbsp;<em>Midrash Tanchuma<\/em>, \u201cAnd who is like you, your brother, and a staff in his hand?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of the words, \u201cDo not rob a meager for he is meager, for the Lord will fight their quarrels.\u201d The Creator said, \u201cDo not rob a meager for he is meager, for I have made him meager. 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