Kabbalah Library

63) “You may use them as slaves forever.” It is a Mitzva [commandment] to enslave a Canaanite slave. They are from the side of Ham, who performed incest, as it is written, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brothers.” “A servant of servants” means that he is a servant of a servant of that world, which is the world of Jubilee. This means that he is a slave to a pierced slave from Israel, who goes out free in the world on the Jubilee, but he does not go out free even on the Jubilee.

64) This must be in the form of incarnation, moving the light from before the darkness. This means that Abraham’s slave, who came out of darkness, who is the seed of Ham, suffices for being as his master, who is Abraham, who came out of Terah, an idol worshipper. This is why he came out of being cursed and out of darkness and became blessed by the Creator, like Abraham, who came out of Terah, which was light out of darkness, too. And darkness from before the light is Ishmael, who came out of Abraham, and Esau from Isaac.