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Torah Portion -
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Written by d fine
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As we pointed out, Shmittah is an intesnive emunah course. Not only that, but it is one of the proofs that the Torah is, indeed, from HaShem - and that it could not have been made by man. How so? For it seems impossible that humans could have made up the mitzvah of Shmittah. How could we get together and tell people that they must keep their lands fallow for a year, promising that God will give them three years’ worth of crop from the sixth year? If such a thing could not be guaranteed then anyone who observed this law would die of starvation - there would be no-one left to keep this mitzvah! Only HaShem could command such a mitzvah and give people the necessary crop yield to survive the year. And this promise has been fulfilled countless times across history. For example, in 1957 the Jewish Agency decided to plant orchards in kibbutz Moshav Kommemiut, which the Moshav accepted on condition that they would observe the Shmittah. At the end of the Shmittah of 1959, a representative from the Ministry of Agriculture told the Moshav’s Rabbi (Rav Mendelsohn) that their orchard had flourished more than all the orchards which had been worked during the Shmittah year. And a similar story is told about a farmer who kept Shmittah during the 1950s and miraculously saw that the tremendously destructive widespread locust infestations of those times did not descend upon his field.
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Torah Portion -
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Written by Daniel Sandground
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Parashas Behar/Bechukosai – The Gift and The Curse :
This week we have another double Parasha which also happens to be the final instalment from the book of Vayikra. Parashas Behar begins with the rules of the Shemittah and Yovel year (the 'sabbatical' and 'jubilee' years for the land) and then moves on to give over the rules concerning the selling and purchase of land (within Israel), the redemption of this land during the Yovel year (will discuss more below) and eventually we are told guidelines pertinent to preventing poverty which includes the prohibition against charging interest to a fellow Jew and generally trying to help him. Parashas Behar ends with some directions on slaves and in particular the treatment of Jewish slaves and the mitzvah to try and redeem one if he comes into the hands of non-Jews. Parashas Bechukosai
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Torah Portion -
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Written by D Fine
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The opening pasuk of Behar singles out that the mitzvah of Shmittah - and all of its details - was relayed to Moshe at Har Sinai. Though this was true of all mitzvos, Shmittah has one difference to it. Whilst the full details of other mitzvos were told to Moshe on Har Sinai and later fully relayed to the people from the Ohel Mo'ed, in the case of Shmittah the entire mitzvah was told at Har Sinai. Why is Shmittah different?
One answer is that Shmittah is an intensive bitachon-course. In leaving one's field fallow for a whole year at HaShem's Command, one shows utter and complete reliance upon HaShem and recognition of Him as the ultimate
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Torah Portion -
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Torah Portion -
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Written by Dovid Manson
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In this weeks parasha we read about shmita. If we look closely at the pesukim leading up to shmita the torah uses a language that it is our land. For example in posak beis its says “when you come to the land I will give to you” In posak gimmel it says “ for six years you may sow your field and for six years you may prune your vineyard and you may gather in its crop” i.e. its your land now that I given to you. we see the Torah is telling us in passuk beis, gimle, dald and hey, again and again that it is our fruits that were reaping. Why stress that it’s ours precisely when we are told we will have to leave it? In fact, the fact that we have to let it grow free is a proof that the land is not ours. Why tell us that is ours and then say by shmita that the produce shall be yours to eat?!
Perhaps the torah is telling us that the two are related
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