Reply To: Racism

I specifically avoided the current issues of political racism, because i don’t think they’re relevant to the daas torah perspective i was trying to convey.

Re, reb yaakov’s drasha – ask anyone who was in ohr shraga in the early 80s; it’s very well known. Rav avigdor miller said similar things, as did my rebbe rav belsky. I qualified the statement in my post specifically to ‘bavohrn” the apparent contradiction you’re raising, by saying that slavery should have been maintained but drastically reformed. Abuse should not have been allowed, and respect for the tzelem elokim in every person – slave or free man – needed to be implemented.