EXOD107 Remember how you yourself suffered if you are called upon to help someone else in a similar situation. The Talmud Yerushalmi (Rosh Hashanah 3:5) states that God commanded Moshe and Aharon to tell the Children of Israel to heed their obligation of freeing slaves on the Jubilee year. At first glance, it seems difficult to understand the necessity of teaching this law while the Jewish nation was still in Egypt, since the laws of the Hebrew slave world apply only once they possessed slaves, after entering the land of Israel. Rabbi Chayim Shmuelevitz explained that at this particular moment the children were enslaved; they felt the anguish and slavery and yearning for freedom. They should remember this very feeling when they themselves would have slaves, and should not hesitate to free them. Whenever a person suffers, he should remember this feeling when he is called upon to help someone else in a similar situation.