We
recently learned that goyim who are not in the realm of טוב
ה'
לקוויו – G-d
is good to those who hope to Him, are only supervised with hashgacha
klalis, a more general, less individualistic Divine supervision.
This
has halachic ramifications. There is a law that a korban is
disqualified if brought בשינוי
בעלים – with
a different owner in mind. But regarding a goy we can possibly say
that since he doesn't merit hashgacha pratis, once he donates the
korban it no longer relates to him individually, and is swallowed up
under the general rubric of בני
נח and therefore שינוי בעלים would
not adversly affect the kashrus of the korban. If goyim merit
hashgacha pratis then the laws of שינוי
בעלים would
apply to their korbanos.
What
about עבדים?
Do they have special hashgacha pratis or are they subsumed under the
hashgacha of their masters? Apparently it is a machlokes between the
Bavli and the Sifri. The gemara [Sotah 39] only derives
a special bracha from the Kohanim for freed עבדים
[see
there] while in the Sifre [Parshas Naso] there is a special
derivation that teaches that עבדים
merit
a personal bracha. The Bavli is learning that they don't have hashgacha pratis and the Sifre contends that they do.
This is a topic that requires much more discussion and analysis - ועוד חזון למועד!
Based on the Rogochover ztz"l
לזכות ידידי אהובי ר' שמואל בנימין בן תשנה רחל לאה וכל בני ביתו!
