{"versions": [{"status": "locked", "priority": 4.0, "license": "CC-BY-NC", "versionNotes": "", "formatAsPoetry": "", "digitizedBySefaria": true, "method": "", "heversionSource": "", "versionUrl": "", "versionTitleInHebrew": "", "versionNotesInHebrew": "", "shortVersionTitle": "", "shortVersionTitleInHebrew": "", "extendedNotes": "", "extendedNotesHebrew": "", "purchaseInformationImage": "", "purchaseInformationURL": "", "hasManuallyWrappedRefs": "", "language": "en", "versionSource": "https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH990010840440205171/NLI", "versionTitle": "The Pentateuch, rendered into English by Isaac Levy. Gateshead; Judaica Press, 1989", "actualLanguage": "en", "languageFamilyName": "english", "isSource": false, "isPrimary": false, "direction": "ltr", "text": ["V. 25.—26.—27. That which is said in these verses contains perhaps the deepest and farthest reaching prophesy which ever a human eye has been allowed to see of the future, and which God has allowed to be spoken by human lips. The whole history of mankind, the beginning the end and the middle lies in these three verses.", "Above we have already thought we could recognize in the names of the sons of Noah the essential nuances which characterise the nations which descend from them, according to whether spirit, sensuality or feelings predominate in their national character. Here they stand in their double significance, as individuals and as the founders of the nations of the future.", "V. 25. When Noah woke up and got to know of Ham’s behaviour, his first thought was:— the principle that showed itself here in Ham can, and may, and will — (for it is no means necessary that ארור always expresses a wish in the ordinary sense of a “curse”, but rather, and especially here, a declaration) — never be the ruling one. Raw “hot” sensuality, which has no control over itself, which has lost all reserve and all respect for anything spiritually high is unfit for ruling, yea, for freedom, it in itself is unfruitful, is ארור without progress or blessing, it bears its ruin in itself. — עבד עבדים not the lowest slave, but, just as אלקי האלקים does not mean the highest God, but the God of the gods, so also עבד עבדים, the others too are עבדים, but Canaan will be עבד עבדים. Inasmuch as it is repeated again in the next verse that Canaan will have the fate of being an עבד, there must undoubtedly be some connection between the Canaan-character and the עבד fate. And, as a matter of fact, as ארור lies in Canaan, so that the future belongs only to the pure and ennobled, but not to the coarse, unrefined, so also in social life, in the social and national life, in the relation of man to man and nation to nation, freedom is only achieved and retained by those who can master and control themselves. Sensuality, uncontrolled licentiousness, is the bait by which one is led by strings into slavery. He who at all times is master of himself, who can easily control giving satisfaction to the urges of his senses, he cannot be bribed or enticed, for him gold can not become golden chains; he can go under, die — but he can not become enslaved. 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