Gentile Servants In The Dvar Torah

This week’s parshah is packed with commandments, in this Dvar Torah i will highlight only some of them. This week’s reading starts off relating about the Proper treatment of Jewish and Gentile servants. If a Jewish slave chose to stay with his master after 7 years of servitude, in retribution, the master would take the slave by the doorpost and bore a piercing into the slaves ear (Shemot 21:6), to remind him that he is now a slave to the master and has neglected the opportunity of leaving his status of being a slave, in turn missing the opportunity to serve Hashem instead (Gemara Kiddushin 22b). At the end of the day, Hashem set us free from slavery in Egypt in order that we should keep his commandments! At the end of the Jubilee year, all slaves are then set free and all homes and fields are given back to the original owners.
The Parshah then goes on to relate a husband’s obligations to his wife (Shemot 21:10). All marriages are viewed as a two way relationship, a partnership, between husband and wife. When a couple is at harmony and in a strong relationship with each other, it is considered as if Hashems divine presence is resting upon them. The Talmud has stated that a man must love his wife at least as much as himself but honor her more than himself (Yevamot 62b). Also

All three of the above transgressions are viewed as an abomination towards Hashem. The Egyptians and Caanaanites were very much steeped into these abominations. The Egyptians were famous for their black magic and witchcraft, as we saw in Parshat Shemot how they changed the blood back to water (Shemot 7:22). In Canaan, bestiality was very much prevalent, in fact it was these sort of sin's that ended up vomiting the Caananites out of the land of Israel. The Jewish Kings were severely guilty of worshiping idols, including, Menashe, Achav and Yeravim Ben Nabot (Sefer