When a person is just an eved for six years, so it's a short time period, it's a short time period, so he still continues to dream and he still continues to have his own dreams and his own aspirations and he's not really bound to his adon's way of thinking, his adon's way of life. It's true that he's an eved, so for six years he's gonna put in his time and then he will extricate himself from that. And being an eved for six years won't be, won't be such a, a glaring contradiction to כי לי בני ישראל עבדים, עבדי הם ולא עבדים לעבדים.
Because the main thing is whether or not a person continues to think independently, whether a person continues to have his own aspirations, his own hasados. But when this person, the nirtza, where he binds himself le-olamo shel yovel, and again, take an extreme case, maybe it's as much as forty years or more, so then it's not just that הלך וקנה זה אדון לעצמו, but kono adon le-atmo in such a way that he begins to stop, he loses his spiritual independence, not just temporarily that his material independence, but he loses then his spiritual independence. Because when you become too dependent upon someone materially, when that relationship is too long-standing, so then it begins to spill over into the spiritual realm as well. And that's the pshat what Yochanan ben Zakkai says, והלך זה וקנה אדון לעצמו, so he stops, he won't have his own dreams, whatever if the adon is very, very materialistic, he'll also become very materialistic, he will assimilate to the adon's lifestyle and way of thinking, and that's what Yochanan ben Zakkai was very makpid on. Okay, next week we'll probably take a couple days off the beginning of the week.