Aaron ben Joseph ha-Levi of Barcelona (1235 – c.1290)
A gentile slave has to be enslaved forever ... one of the main reasons being that since the Jewish nation is the elite of the human race and the Jews were chose to worship their creator and to serve before Him they deserve to have slaves to serve them. If they will not have slaves from the midst of the neighboring nations they will have to get slaves from their own midst and they (i.e., the Jewish slaves) will be unable to serve God; therefore we are command to keep gentiles slaves forever ...
The Slavery Controversy and Judaism. Judah M. Rosenthal. Conservative Judaism, Volumes 31-32, p.171.
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