Balancing Act

An eved ivri who chooses to stay with his master has his ear pierced. Rashi explains that the ear that heard at Sinai that we serve Hashem went and found another master. But that ear heard "don't kill" too, so why only this aveira? And why the ear, when the eyes saw just as much?Rav Hutner's answer turns on what it really means to listen. A baal teshuva who cannot give up one habit on Shabbos goes to a great Rav and leaves with a strange instruction. It speaks to anyone who struggles to hear a friend, a spouse or the Torah say he has gone too far.