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Mishpatim: Female Servitude... Wait, What?

By Rabbi David Fohrman

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January 23, 2014, 10 PM ET

In this week's parsha, we are given the laws of female servitude -- worse, a female child, being sold by her parents! How are we, as 21st century students of the Torah, meant to understand such a difficult piece of text? In this video, Rabbi Fohrman shows us that the Torah argues that to create a better society, we must be proactive about addressing social and economic inequality.

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