אמר ר' רודן עבדות וגירות בארץ לא להם, "ועבדום וענו אותם ארבע מאות שנה" (ברא' טו:יג), אפילו על איספיטלית שלהם. (ה:ז דף 89)
"Rabbi Yudan (=Yehudah) said: servitude and alienage in a land that is not theirs. 'And they served them and they opressed them four hundred years", [includes] even when they were at leisure".
Israel was in servitude for two hundred and ten years, the remaing one hundred and ninety years, although aliens in the Land of Egypt they were not actually enslaved but lived in leisure with freedom of rights.
Nevertheless, these years are counted among the years of enslavement!
The Scripture does more than reveal the consciousness or feelings of the Jewish people in Egypt; it expresses a divine truth. A jew is enslaved as long as he is not in his land, the Land of Israel!
Israel was in servitude for two hundred and ten years, the remaing one hundred and ninety years, although aliens in the Land of Egypt they were not actually enslaved but lived in leisure with freedom of rights.
Nevertheless, these years are counted among the years of enslavement!
The Scripture does more than reveal the consciousness or feelings of the Jewish people in Egypt; it expresses a divine truth. A jew is enslaved as long as he is not in his land, the Land of Israel!
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