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Pidyon shevuyim (Hebrew: פִּדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִים, romanized: piḏyon šəvuyim, literally: Redemption of Captives) is a religious duty in Judaism to bring about the release of a fellow Jew captured by slave dealers or robbers, or imprisoned unjustly. Reconciliation, ransom negotiations, or unrelenting pursuit typically secured ...
Goel (Hebrew: גואל, romanized: goʾel}redeemer), in the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic Judaism, is a person who, as the nearest relative of someone, is charged with the duty of restoring that person's rights and avenging wrongs done to him or her. One duty of the goel was to redeem
Redemption also applies to individuals or groups: an Israelite slave, [25] an Israelite captive, [26] and the firstborn son [27] pidyon haben, (Hebrew: פדיון הבן) or redemption of the first-born son, [28] is a mitzvah in Judaism whereby a Jewish firstborn son is redeemed from God by use of silver coins to a kohen. [29]
The Talmud's slavery laws, which were established in the second through the fifth centuries CE, [2] contain a single set of rules for all slaves, although there are a few exceptions where Hebrew slaves are treated differently from non-Hebrew slaves. The laws include punishment for slave owners that mistreat their slaves.
The Greek term doulos (δοῦλος) more directly refers to slaves (diakonos is a separate word for 'servant'); however, the Septuagint frequently translates the Hebrew `ebed to Greek doulos in senses where the original meant 'servant', leaving the meaning unclear.
The Haggadah explores the meaning of those verses, and embellishes the story. This telling describes the slavery of the Jewish people and their miraculous salvation by God. This culminates in an enumeration of the Ten Plagues: Dam (blood) – All the water was changed to blood; Tzefardeyah (frogs) – An infestation of frogs sprang up in Egypt
"My Redeemer": or "my Vindicator", from the active participle of the Hebrew word גָּאַל, gaʾal ("to redeem, protect, vindicate"), a well-known word in the Hebrew Bible because of its identification as the "kinsman-redeemer" (cf. Book of Ruth), who is 'the near kinsman who will pay off one’s debts, defend the family, avenge a killing ...
A shofar. Behar, BeHar, Be-har, or B'har (בְּהַר —Hebrew for "on the mount," the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 32nd weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Leviticus.