{"id":62676,"date":"2019-09-10T11:28:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T08:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=62676"},"modified":"2023-04-10T17:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:44:39","slug":"is-the-land-ours-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/is-the-land-ours-to-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Land Ours To Sell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[927,497,403],"acf":{"old_id":"62676","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33692,"related_cahpter":"308","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"In refusing Ahab, Naboth has firm ground to stand on","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the opening lines of the chapter, the protagonists are depicted as products of their geography: &#8220;Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel&#8221; \u2014 he is a Jezreelite; it is the cornerstone of his identity. He is contrasted with &#8220;Ahab, king of Samaria,&#8221; a city far from Jezreel, who is nonetheless the king. This description transmits two contrasting perceptions. First, Naboth is way out of his depth; he, a commoner, is defying the king! Second, conversely, this king resides in Samaria; he is a foreign implant in Jezreel. His jurisdiction is elsewhere, and it is Naboth who is the local fixture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naboth refuses the king on principle: &#8220;God forbid I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.&#8221; In other words, I cannot sell you my vineyard even if I wish, because God has mandated me to preserve this tract of land in my family. This response reflects no lack of respect for Ahab or disregard for the high office of the king. Naboth simply sees the issue as a matter of faith. But is Naboth correct? Is a Jew forbidden to sell land?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In parashat Behar, the selling of land in Eretz Yisrael is permitted only under dire financial duress. Moreover, if unfortunate circumstances lead to the sale of the ancestral estate, the family of the land&#8217;s original tribal owner is to &#8220;redeem&#8221; that land, restoring it to the family (see Lev. 25:25). This practice is seen in the book of Ruth, when Boaz redeems the property of Elimelech.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Torah, this mitzva is preceded by the following verses: \u201cThe land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is Mine, and you are sojourners and residents with Me. And throughout the land of your possession, you shall give redemption to the land\u201d (Lev. 25:23-24).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, we read in the book of Numbers: \u201cAn inheritance shall not be transferred from one tribe to another, for each person of the children of Israel shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers, that the children of Israel may inherit, each individual the inheritance of his fathers\u201d (36:7-8).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the origin of the phrase spoken by Naboth, &#8220;the inheritance of my fathers.&#8221; The land is not ours to sell. God has entrusted it to us, returning it to the ancestral family unit each Jubilee (yovel) year if we have sold it in the intervening years. A Jew sells his inheritance only as a last resort!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alex Israel, <em>1 Kings: Torn in Two,<\/em> Maggid Books, 2013, A Perfect Murder\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":61437,"id":61437,"title":"alex israel - kings 1","filename":"alex-israel-kings-1.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/adonijahs-scheme-to-ascend-the-throne\/alex-israel-kings-1\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"alex-israel-kings-1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":61414,"date":"2019-08-19 12:13:44","modified":"2019-08-19 12:13:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1020,"height":1304,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-235x300.jpg","medium-width":235,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-768x982.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":982,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-801x1024.jpg","large-width":801,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1020,"1536x1536-height":1304,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1020,"2048x2048-height":1304,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-939x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":939,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-329x420.jpg","home_baner-width":329,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Excerpts from: 1 Kings - 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