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Home -- Content: Series 7 (Laws) -- Translation: English -- Book: 1 (Tora) -- Part: 2 (Negative) -- Prohibition: 259 -- Text The Sharia of Moses in the TORA 259 - EMPLOYING A HEBREW BONDMAN ON UNNECESSARY WORKLeviticus 25:43 -- “You shall not rule over him with rigor, but you shall fear your God.”
Although the employment of a Canaanite bondman “with rigor” is legally permitted, Jewish standards of kindness and humanity never permitted a man to work his bondmen “with rigor”.* * Kinyan, Hilchoth Abadim IX, 8. See also Note to Pos. Comm. 235, Vol. I, pp. 246ff
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