Parshat Mishpatim: What does the Torah have to say about slavery?
A proper look at laws of slavery in the Torah teaches us that there is a direct connection between the laws of the Torah and the feelings of a person who sees slavery as immoral.
LEGENDARY SPARTAN lawgiver Lycurgus is immortalized in a statue at the Palace of Justice in Brussels. In Sparta, each free person had 70 slaves.(photo credit: MATT POPOVICH/FLICKR)ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
