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The Lord spoke to Moses on Mt. Sinai saying: Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of God (verses 1-2).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi famously asks- what is the connection between shmita<\/em> and Mt. Sinai? (This question has turned into the Jewish version of the phrase \u201cwhat does this have to do with the price of tea in China?\u201d). Rashi answers that just as this chapter is full of the details of the laws of shmita- the sabbatical year- all the details of other laws were also given on Mt. Sinai even if they were not explicitly listed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibn Ezra offers a different answer. The sabbatical year rule is only relevant when the people enter the land of Canaan. He explains that this section really should have appeared back in Exodus around the giving of the Torah. It was placed here because it is thematically linked to the previous discussions about not following the actions of the nations in Canaan and the upcoming blessings and curses. In Ibn Ezra\u2019s reading, this section is the thematic bridge between Exodus and Numbers after the interlude of the first 24 chapters of Leviticus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Abarbanel has a slightly different take. He explains that this chapter is not out of place, like Ibn Ezra believes, but is just a return to the general rules that Moses received on Mt. Sinai. Following the sin of the Golden Calf, Moses needed to focus on the building of the Mishkan. The Mishkan necessitated discussions over the sacrifices, the concepts of purity and impurity, what animals could be eaten and sacrificed, prohibitions of forbidden relationships and everything else that was listed in Leviticus until this point. Once these \u201cMishkan\u201d related laws were complete, Moses returned to discuss the general laws he was given on Mt. Sinai starting with the Sabbatical year. The implication of Abarbanel\u2019s opinion is that all of these laws in Leviticus are all a result of the Mishkan and the sin of the Golden Calf!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the Torah connected shmita to Mt. Sinai to link this law that is only relevant in the land to the time period of the giving of the Torah. Shmita could not be observed in the wilderness. It is also a cyclical law that applies to the land. Every seven years the people are forced to remember that they are only visitors in the land. God gave them the land as a gift and every seventh year they must stop their daily toil and fully put their faith in God. The seventh year of the shmita cycle is therefore a reenactment of the time of Mt. Sinai and the wilderness when the people fully relied on God. In the wilderness it was easy to take God\u2019s help for granted, and in the land it will be easy to forget that God is helping. 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A bell was commissioned by the City of Philadelphia, which has become known as the \u201cLiberty Bell.\u201d A portion of the text emblazoned on the bell, \u201cProclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all inhabitants thereof\u201d is a translation of Lev 25:10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While the Hebrew word <\/span>dror<\/span><\/i> in that verse could be understood as \u201cliberty,\u201d this is not indicated by the context. The more appropriate translation of the word is \u201crelease,\u201d the term specifically pertaining to the treatment of Israelite servants and slaves during the Jubilee year.<\/span> The biblical context is that upon the cyclical advent of the fiftieth year, or \u201cJubilee,\u201d all Israelite indentured servants are to be given their freedom to return home to their families.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is a far cry from the concept \u201cliberty for all,\u201d since the commandment, for instance, did not apply to non-Jewish servants:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Such male and female slaves as you may have\u2014it is from the nations round about you that you may acquire male and female slaves. You may also buy them from among the children of aliens resident among you, or from their families that are among you, whom they begot in your land. These shall become your property;\u00a0 You may keep them as a possession for your children after you, for them to inherit as property for all time. Such you may treat as slaves. But as for your Israelite kin, no one shall rule ruthlessly over another (Lev 25-44-46).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moreover, even the minimal requirement was not always honored:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Everyone, officials and people, who had entered into the covenant\u2019 agreed to set their (Israelite) male and female slaves free, and not keep them enslaved any longer; they complied and let them go. But afterward they turned about and brought back the men and women they had set free, and forced them into slavery again (Jer. 34:10-11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If cynical Israelites could not be relied upon to \u201crelease\u201d their own brethren from servitude, what likelihood could there be for actual \u201cliberty\u201d to pertain \u201cthroughout the land\u201d\u2014Israel or elsewhere?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Aaron Lichtenstein (<\/span>Does Judaism Recognize an Ethic Independent of Halakha?<\/span><\/em>), while investigating the idea of \u201cgoing beyond the letter of the law\u201d quotes Lon Fuller\u2019s discussion of the \u201caspiration\u201d of a society. Perhaps this is the manner in which Leviticus 25 has to be understood. The \u201caspiration\u201d of the Torah is a time when the biblical description of the human\u2019s creation (Genesis 1:26-7,) will be taken literally by everyone, and policies of Jewish and other civilizations will indeed reflect the principle that \u201call people are created equal.\u201d But human sensibilities evolve slowly, and for the time being, we will have to be satisfied with liberty, freedom and release being only partial at best.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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We are told to count six years, during which we may tend to our agricultural needs, and then give our fields a sabbatical (<\/span>shmita<\/span><\/em>) on the seventh year. In that seventh year (still observed in Israel today \u2013 in fact, we\u2019re in the midst of a shmita year right now) \u201cthe land shall have a Sabbath of complete rest (25:4)\u201d and we may not sow, prune, reap, harvest, or gather the produce from the land. Rather, we leave it fallow for those in need. Then we are commanded to count seven shmita cycles, and the 50<\/span>th<\/span> year will be observed as a jubilee year (<\/span>yovel<\/span><\/em>). During the <\/span>yovel<\/span><\/em>, the laws of <\/span>shmita<\/span>\u00a0are observed, but also servants are released and land returns to its original owner.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Besides the obvious benefit of reminding us Who is in control of the world, these divinely appointed time-outs give us something else of great significance. Every seven days we have Shabbat to set aside the week and refresh, both physically and spiritually. On Yom Kippur we reflect about the year just passed and strategize on the changes we can make in the coming year. Our holy days throughout the year provide the same opportunities for personal reflection and connecting with God. Human nature propels us through weeks, months, and years, often on autopilot. Even when things are not going well \u2013 we\u2019re burning out, we\u2019re dissatisfied with our jobs, we\u2019re over-stretched and overwhelmed - our tendency is to power on. Maybe we find it hard to say \u201cno.\u201d Maybe it\u2019s just too scary to quit or change our job. Maybe we just don\u2019t have time to seriously think through our options. But God gives us designated compulsory times to stop, breathe and reset. Shabbat and holy days let us do that personally, while <\/span>shmita<\/span> extends the reset to our land, and <\/span>yovel<\/span><\/em> extends it further to all of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in <\/span>Covenant and Conversation<\/span><\/em>, points out an interesting linguistic characteristic of the counting commandment in this chapter. A couple of chapters ago, God also commanded a counting of days \u2013 the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot (<\/span>Sefirat ha\u2019Omer<\/span><\/em>). In that instance, God uses the phrase \u201c<\/span>u\u2019sefartem lachem<\/em> <\/span>- you (plural) will count.\u201d But the counting of the 49 years of shmita<\/span> cycles to reach the <\/span>yovel<\/span><\/em> is given as \u201c<\/em><\/span>v\u2019sefarta lecha<\/span> <\/em>\u2013 <\/span><\/i>you, singular.\u201d Whereas all individuals are responsible for counting the days between freedom from slavery (Passover) to receiving the Torah (Shavuot), the sabbatical and jubilee years are an obligation of the community acting as one, and the counting is done on behalf of everyone by the <\/span>Bet Din<\/em> <\/span>(High Court).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God has given us ample opportunities to reset our course. Whether or not we observe Shabbat, Holy Days or count <\/span>Sefirat Ha\u2019Omer<\/span><\/em> only impacts us as individuals. But the observance of <\/span>shmita<\/span><\/i>\u00a0and <\/span>yovel<\/span><\/em> impacts others, particularly the less fortunate for whom we are responsible. 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Nothing is forever.\u00a0 Even the seeming permanency of owning land is not for all time, we are told in this week\u2019s portion. What is this about? Instructions for a \u201cSabbath of the Lord\u201d (25:2) are given: six years the Israelites are instructed to till the land and gather its produce but the seventh is a sabbath year for the land, when farmers cannot plant seeds, prune or harvest.\u00a0 Moreover, we have here the first mention in the Torah of the jubilee year (yovel<\/em>), the fiftieth year. It is in this year that \u201cyou shall proclaim release throughout the land\u201d (25:10) or in the more famous translation, inscribed on a bell of the same name in Philadelphia, \u201cyou shall proclaim liberty.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

The purpose of the jubilee year and the sense of \u201crelease\u201d it gives to all the residents of the land is that all should know that there are no permanent owners, for all humans are tenants of God. This is stated explicitly in the middle of the portion, \u201cAnd the land must not be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is mine, you are strangers and temporary residents with me\u201d (25:23). Ramban explains that these words mean \u201cdon\u2019t make yourselves the main point (ikar<\/em>)\u201d and Rashi says \u201cit is not yours.\u201d Both these explanations encourage those ceding their land to others to do so with humility, to see a purpose beyond themselves.<\/p>\r\n

The connection with the verse about being \u201cstrangers and temporary residents\u201d suggests the purpose of these rules, and their connection to the Sabbath, is that they are about putting limits on humans. Just as the weekly Sabbath is a cessation of work, a stoppage of deliberate action for a purposeful end, here not working the land, and allowing all ownership to revert back to its original tribal owners, is a kind of renunciation. The forfeiting of human power to work the land, and to do work one day out of seven, are both part of the humility we enact, that we will imitate God by ceding creative power for a limited period of time.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

To what end is this ceding of power?\u00a0 No one member of society can be free if all are not free, we learn from these laws; all members of society need access to land and earn a living. Bible professor Yairah Amit says that the \u201cJubilee law is a social law that opens new options for a better life to every member of Israelite society in economic straits.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The sabbatical law and the jubilee law teach us that freedom comes when we recognize that humans have limits, do not have the power that God has, and because money and land don\u2019t\u2019 \u201cbelong\u201d to us but are only on loan from God, we are impelled to share our resources with all members of society. 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Did you know that the Torah has lots to say about sustainable farming practices? Organic farmer Emily Freed explains the laws of the land in down-to-earth language. So get your hands, or at least your ears, dirty!<\/p>\r\n

This is Parshat Behar<\/a> (\u05d1\u05b0\u05bc\u05d4\u05b7\u05e8 \u201con the mount\u201d Leviticus 25:1\u201326:2) Episode 32 of the weekly Torah cartoon from BimBam.com.\u00a0<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J6LlIqF8uvc","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"By: Emily Freed","tile_main_caption":"Behar: Sustainable Farming in the Torah","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A Bimbam Video","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J6LlIqF8uvc","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Judges","chapter":false,"chapter_main_number":false,"date":false,"wall_id":"1045"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"368","name":"Parasha","old_id":"768"},{"term_id":"369","name":"Visual Arts","old_id":"769"}]},{"order":9,"id":"45993","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"We Don\u2019t Own the Land; The Land Owns Us ","post_title":"We Don\u2019t Own the Land; The Land Owns Us","slug":"we-dont-own-the-land-the-land-owns-us","old_id":"45993","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33992,"post_title":"Bradley Shavit Artson","slug":"rabbi-dr-bradley-shavit-artson","old_id":"33992","first_name":"Bradley Shavit ","last_name":"Artson","description":"Rabbi Dr Bradley Shavit Artson holds the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean's Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and is Vice President of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, and is professor of philosophy there. Artson is married to Elana Shavit Artson, and they are the parents of twins, Shira and Jacob.\r\n","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"short_description":"Rabbi Dr Bradley Shavit Artson is the Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and is Vice President of American Jewish University in Los Angeles.","link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":33993,"alt":"","title":"Rabbi Dr Bradley Shavit Artson","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rabbi-Dr-Bradley-Shavit-Artson-e1532029361140.png","width":204,"height":199,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rabbi-Dr-Bradley-Shavit-Artson-e1532029361140-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rabbi-Dr-Bradley-Shavit-Artson-256x300.png","medium-width":256,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rabbi-Dr-Bradley-Shavit-Artson-e1532029361140.png","medium_large-width":204,"medium_large-height":199,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rabbi-Dr-Bradley-Shavit-Artson-e1532029361140.png","large-width":204,"large-height":199,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rabbi-Dr-Bradley-Shavit-Artson-e1532029361140.png","1536x1536-width":204,"1536x1536-height":199,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rabbi-Dr-Bradley-Shavit-Artson-e1532029361140.png","2048x2048-width":204,"2048x2048-height":199,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rabbi-Dr-Bradley-Shavit-Artson-e1532029361140.png","post_full_size-width":204,"post_full_size-height":199,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Rabbi-Dr-Bradley-Shavit-Artson-e1532029361140.png","home_baner-width":204,"home_baner-height":199}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"115","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"You get to dwell on it and care for it for a spell; then you will pass and be buried in it","post_main_content_content":"

One of the delusions of contemporary Western society is the odd notion of ownership. \u201cMy\u201d house, \u201cmy\u201d dog, \u201cmy\u201d car. We use these possessive pronouns to indicate an exclusive control, as if these objects (often living creatures themselves) are to be defined and constrained by being subject to our will and accessible uniquely to us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the one hand, there is something quaint about mortal mammals, as ephemeral as we are, thinking we can control plots of land, mountains, rivers, beach front lots. As though the land can be contained and subject to us. And on a deeper level, there is something truly monstrous \u2013 an absurd outburst of narcissistic ego, in the claims of homo sapiens that the rest of the natural order should be under our control.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the battle over what owns who, the Torah clearly is on the side of the land. In a call of clear insight, the Torah proclaims, \u201cThe land must not be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine; you are but strangers resident with Me. Throughout the land that you hold, you must provide for the redemption of the land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here the Torah gives voice to the land itself, and to its real (and only) claimant. Silly mortal, you who were born and are destined to die, you do not own the land. You get to dwell on it, live with it, enjoy and care for it for a spell. And then you will pass and be buried in the land. And the land will continue without you.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If we are to come and go, yet the land abides, then our attitude toward the land should not be one of ownership, manipulation, or control. It should be one of care, and foresight, and conservation. We should live on the land in such a way that our children and their children will have the opportunity to do the same: to be sustained by the land, inspired by it, and drilled in responsible stewardship by it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How we live on the land (and how we love it) will carve our character as surely as any schooling. And the resulting flourishing, of the land and of its residents, will be seen in our resilience, our deeper belonging, and in the land\u2019s wellbeing itself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We are but residents here. 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i<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I see the world from my own vantage-point.
\r\n<\/span>But I hear your voice
\r\n<\/span>from any direction;
\r\n<\/span>sound calls me to you.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Consider:
\r\n<\/span>Eve finds the Fruit
\r\n<\/span>a pleasure to the eyes;
\r\n<\/span>but she and Adam hear
\r\n<\/span>the voice of God in the Garden, \u00a0
\r\n<\/span>and they know they have wronged Him.
\r\n<\/span>Eyes are a gateway to your pleasure;
\r\n<\/span>sound startles you
\r\n<\/span>from yourself
\r\n<\/span>toward another.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

ii<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We count out forty-nine years.
\r\n<\/span>On the fiftieth
\r\n<\/span>we blow the shofar,
\r\n<\/span>the trumpet.
\r\n<\/span>Debts are forgiven,
\r\n<\/span>land reverts to ancestral families,
\r\n<\/span>land goes fallow;
\r\n<\/span>slaves go free.
\r\n<\/span>To say:
\r\n<\/span>your borrower
\r\n<\/span>your land
\r\n<\/span>your slave
\r\n<\/span>have their own existence
\r\n<\/span>apart from yours.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We come to this understanding
\r\n<\/span>through the trumpet:
\r\n<\/span>through listening.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

iii<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of the slave who shall go free
\r\n<\/span>in the fiftieth year,
\r\n<\/span>God says:
\r\n<\/span>he is owed freedom,
\r\n<\/span>you shall not see him worked brutally
\r\n<\/span>before your eyes.
\r\n<\/span>To say:
\r\n<\/span>train your eyes
\r\n<\/span>to find brutality
\r\n<\/span>to root it out.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For forty-nine years
\r\n<\/span>you ready yourself to hear the shofar:
\r\n<\/span>to listen,
\r\n<\/span>to hear around you.
\r\n<\/span>Learning to listen,
\r\n<\/span>you learn to use your eyes.
\r\n<\/span>Learning to listen,
\r\n<\/span>you learn to see.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Genesis 3:6,8; Leviticus 25:8-28,53<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Ownership is a complicated matter. For a Marxist, it is the root of all evil, or at least a particularly hardy one. To say this is mine is to assert that it isn\u2019t yours, and there is no way that claim can be made without at least a hint of aggression. The law understands a title to property as a matter of defense against all the world. It is this very friction that gives ownership its sense of dignity; in a world of rootless wandering and ephemeral sojourning, to own something allows us to say with the speaker of <\/span>The Wasteland<\/em> <\/span>\u201cthese fragments I have shored against my ruin.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

We do not own the people or places we love, but we do own the gifts we give them, the houses we build for them, the food we feed them, and the plane tickets that allow us to reach them. In an extra-legal sense, we own the texture of our experience, the force of our writing, the good we do for and with others.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Today\u2019s chapter reflects ambivalence about the virtues of ownership. It deals with real property, the land beneath your feet, the most basic and foundational thing to which you can lay claim. It both affirms the possibility of such ownership and articulates the terms for its regular relinquishment. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In affirming both the norm of private property and the circumstances under which that regime is suspended, the Torah offers a vision of property that is neither revolutionary nor reactionary, but merely cyclical. The things we own will outlast us, but we can\u2019t take them wherever we are going next, and so it is best to be realistic about how tightly we can grip them, and when we need to unclench our fists and let some things go, so that we can gather in and hold the most important things. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The most compelling impact of Egypt was the enactment of freedom in time: the threefold sabbatical structure of the seventh day, the seventh year, and the Jubilee, the year that marked the completion of seven septennial cycles. Despite attempts of historians to trace a connection to the Babylonian calendar, the Sabbath was an unprecedented innovation. It meant that one day in seven all hierarchies of wealth and power were suspended. No one could be forced to work: not employees, or slaves, or even domestic animals. In the seventh year, debts were remitted and slaves sent free. In the Jubilee \u2013 when the shofar was sounded, proclaiming \u201cliberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants\u201d (Lev. 25:10) \u2013 all ancestral land was returned to its original owners. The logic of these laws is simple: \u201cFor the Israelites belong to Me as servants; they are My servants whom I brought out of Egypt\u201d (ibid. 25:55). Those who are servants to God may not be slaves to man.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Pesach and the Rebirth of Israel in The Jonathan Sacks Haggada<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). 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Leviticus Chapter 25:35-55 commands us to care for a fellow Israelite who has fallen on bad times. The Midrash on this selection (Leviticus Rabbah 34:14) preserves a dramatic and instructive narrative of how a renowned rabbinic sage convinced God to care for His people in imitation of human kindness that exceeded normal halakhic constraints. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In time of drought, Rabbi Tanhuma repeatedly declared a fast to bring rain, but so far without success. \u00a0He then preached to the people and instructed them to distribute charity to those in need. One man went out to distribute what he had in his home. His divorcee accosted him saying, \u201cGive me charity, for ever since I left your home, no good has befallen me.\u201d Seeing that his former wife was indeed in great straits, he was filled with compassion for her and gave her charity. Another man, seeing the exchange of money, informed Rabbi Tanhuma and said, \u201cI have seen a man giving money to his divorcee, which can only mean he is continuing to have prohibited intimate relations with her!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Tanhuma had the man brought before him and said: \u201cMy son, you know that the world is in distress and mankind is in distress, yet you go and meet with your divorcee and even give her money, which raises suspicion that you are engaging in prohibited relations with her\u201d. The man replied: \u201cBut did you not call upon us to distribute charity and tell us \u2018not to ignore your own kin\u2019 (Isaiah 58:7)?! \u2026 how could I ignore the distress of a woman to whom I was once so close?!\u201d. Hearing this, Rabbi Tanhuma looked to heaven and cried out to the Holy One, blessed be He, \u201cKing of the Universe! This man, who is no longer responsible for the maintenance of his ex-wife, was filled with compassion for her. How much more so should You be filled with compassion for us who are the children of Your children, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and are dependent on You for our maintenance!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Immediately, rain fell, and the world revived.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":79528,"alt":"","title":"zech10-climate-change","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change.jpg","width":1920,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-300x156.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":156,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-768x400.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":400,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-1024x533.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":533,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":800,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-1200x625.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":625,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-806x420.jpg","home_baner-width":806,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"God Imitates Man","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Compassion below arouses compassion above","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":79528,"alt":"","title":"zech10-climate-change","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change.jpg","width":1920,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-300x156.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":156,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-768x400.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":400,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-1024x533.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":533,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":800,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-1200x625.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":625,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/zech10-climate-change-806x420.jpg","home_baner-width":806,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":"25","chapter_main_number":"115","date":"20260205","wall_id":"115"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"363","name":"Midrash","old_id":"763"},{"term_id":"542","name":"Generosity","old_id":"942"},{"term_id":"777","name":"Tzedaka","old_id":"1177"},{"term_id":"780","name":"Rain","old_id":"1180"}]},{"order":14,"id":"45985","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"\"Proclaiming Liberty\": An Ancient Intertext ","post_title":"\"Proclaiming Liberty\": An Ancient Intertext","slug":"proclaiming-liberty-an-ancient-intertext","old_id":"45985","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":44114,"post_title":"Shalom Holtz","slug":"shalom-holtz","old_id":"44114","first_name":"Shalom ","last_name":"Holtz ","description":"Shalom E. 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Leviticus 25:10 instructs its audience to proclaim <\/span>d<\/span>e<\/span>r\u00f4r<\/span><\/em> for the land and all its inhabitants. The Akkadian cognate of this Hebrew word, <\/span>anduraru<\/span><\/i>, refers to an ancient royal prerogative that allowed the king to proclaim release of land and slaves. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This Babylonian record of a property grant includes the stipulation that the granted house is <\/span>not <\/span><\/i>subject to the release\u2014<\/span>la<\/i><\/b> (like Hebrew <\/span>lo, <\/span><\/i>\"no\" or \"not\") <\/span>andurarim.<\/span><\/i> Because the king has the power to proclaim the release, he, as the granter, can also exclude the property from the release's purview.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the Bible, God takes on this royal prerogative, establishing a fixed-interval release, removed from any human king's will. This underscores the theme of the chapter that \"the land is Mine; you are all sojourners with Me\" (25:24).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

image:\u00a0Tablet with imprint in the name of Ishar-Lim: royal gift contract of a house<\/a>\u00a0
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\u00a9 Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, dist. 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I am a firm believer in describing the Jewish people's modern return to Israel and to sovereignty as \"the beginning of the flowering of our redemption\"- <\/span>'Reishit Tzmichat Geulateinu<\/span><\/i>\". In chapter 25, with the Jewish people about to begin their preparations to enter Israel, the Torah uses the word 'redemption' for the first time since the exodus. How do we achieve redemption? How do we redeem our land? The answer the Torah provides might surprise you. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And the land may not be sold for perpetuity, for the land is Mine, for you are strangers and residents in the land. In all the lands of your possession, give redemption to the land. (25:23-24)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Redeeming the land of Israel doesn't mean conquering it or settling it, but rather, <\/span>relinquishing<\/b> it. It's a counterintuitive idea, because the idea of 'land redemption' usually refers to taking ownership of the land. But true redemption, according to the Torah, is the exact opposite. It's a recognition of the one true Owner of the land, just as we redeem people by freeing them from human control to allow them to be servants only of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not only does this awareness constitute redemption for the land, it is, ironically, the attitude the Torah requires in order to \"dwell securely in the land\". Shmita and Yovel \u00a0aren't meant to be rare occurrences which are dealt with only when they arrive every 7 and 50 years. They define every single real estate transaction made during the interim years as well. Every one of the 49 years leading up to Yovel is counted, as we count the days to Shavuot. These are halachic institutions which are meant to define our attitude towards private property, guarding us from the hubris and corruption of power that history has proven always goes hand in hand with ownership. (The yawning chasm between this idea and our current practice of shmita is deeply troubling, and deserves its own meditation.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our redemption has begun to flower. But it can only truly blossom when we understand that we come here not for control, or for power, but to be strangers and residents, responsible stewards of a sacred trust for the land's true Owner.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Leviticus 25:4 - \"But in the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath of complete rest, a sabbath of the Lord: you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.\" <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Leviticus 25 and Deuteronomy 15 spell out the logistics of the utopian dream of the shmita (Sabbatical) and the yovel (Jubilee) years.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The ideal of letting farmland lay fallow and for indebted residents to be released from their financial obligations is an ideal that is inspirational and is even relevant in this day and age, if not more so.\u00a0<\/span>Deforestation, over-fishing, mono-cropping agricultural operations, these are but three examples of the relentless pursuit of producing more and more right now at the expense of future generations having anything left for themselves.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

No time is given for the forests, oceans, or farmland to recuperate or regenerate. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

As of June 2018, according to Forbes Magazine, the national student debt is $1.5 Trillion and impacts 44 million current and former American students. With interest rates for advanced degrees (6-7%) that surpass averages for car and home loan interest rates (around 3-4%) - the question remains why are we squeezing our greatest resources (young minds and the natural world) to the utmost degree? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah asked that question as well, but then suggested an actual answer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah dreams of a brighter future as a result of a sacrifice now, rather than having a glittery present on the backs of the sacrifices of future generation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of course, like any dream for a better future, emendations will surely have to be made. In Mishnah Gittin 4:3 it says \"Hillel instituted the 'pruzbul<\/em>' [a court-issued exemption from the shmita year cancellation of a personal loan] due to Tikkun HaOlam<\/em>.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hillel noticed that people stopped giving loans before the shmita year and so he created an amendment to the laws of the Torah. Loans would no longer be erased so that people would feel comfortable lending again.\u00a0<\/span>The dream of letting the land rest has had amendments added to it as well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah's utopian dream was confronted with tangible reality. Even though changes were made that neutralized some of the more radical aspects of the vision, the effort to think of a better world was not for nothing. Attempting to make the world a better place is more meaningful than hopelessly striving for perfection - since perfection will always remain beyond our reach.<\/p>\r\n

May we in our days have the Torah-like boldness to dream of ideas like the Jubilee and Sabbatical years to our debt and ecological problems. 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This inscription on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, borrowed from our chapter (verse 10), attests to the affinity that many of the colonial patriots felt for the Old Testament and for the Jews\u2014or Hebrews, as they were accustomed to calling us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Less well-known, perhaps, is the influence we almost had on the Great Seal of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On July 4, 1776, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson were appointed as a committee to design a seal. Adams went with a figure out of Greek mythology (Hercules), but Jefferson and Franklin each suggested a biblical theme. Jefferson wanted the seal to depict the Israelites leaving Egyptian slavery and bondage (a poignant choice given the controversy surrounding his views on slavery). Franklin wanted it to depict Moses splitting the Red Sea, the Egyptians drowning, and the Israelites safe on the far bank. To that, he would have added the caption: \u201cRebellion<\/span> to tyrants is obedience to God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Eventually, none of these designs carried the day and the actual seal (apparently inspired by Freemasons, with the motto: <\/span>E Pluribus Unum<\/span><\/i>) can be seen on the back of a $1 bill, but it is a reminder of how close the Jewish and American experiences have often been.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

image: Benson John Lossing's (1856) interpretation of Benjmain Franklin's 1776 design: Moses standing on the Shore, and extending his Hand over the Sea, thereby causing the same to overwhelm Pharaoh who is sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his Head and a Sword in his Hand. Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Clouds reaching to Moses, to express that he acts by Command of the Deity. 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Parshat Behar is just a single chapter, but it transformed the social structure of ancient Israel and provided a unique solution to the seemingly unsolvable conflict between two fundamental ideals: freedom and equality. Much of human history has illustrated the fact that you can have freedom without equality (capitalism\/laissez-faire economics), or equality without freedom (communism, socialism), but not both. The powerful insight of the Torah is that you can have both, but not at the same time. Therefore time itself has to become part of the solution, in the form of the seventh year and, after seven sabbatical cycles, the Jubilee year. These function as periodic corrections to the inequalities caused by the free market that allow some to become rich while others suffer the loss of land, home, and even freedom. Through the periodic liberation of slaves, release of debts, and restoration of ancestral lands, the Torah provides an inspiring alternative to individualism on the one hand, collectivism on the other.<\/p>\r\n

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\"Then you shall make a proclamation with the blast of the horn on the tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom Kippur shall you make a proclamation with the horn throughout your land. \u00a0And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall a jubilee for you \u2026\" (Leviticus 25:9-10)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Where is the key that You had given me, \u00a0\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>O Lord, which could unlock the prison gate
\r\n<\/span>And open all its doors, to liberate
\r\n<\/span>Deaf prisoners who wait impatiently
\r\n<\/span>To hear the orchestra of liberty?
\r\n<\/span>They wait inside, not knowing that they wait
\r\n<\/span>In vain, not knowing that it is too late,
\r\n<\/span>Not knowing that I cannot find the key.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The key is lost, so we are doomed to stay
\r\n<\/span>Behind the prison walls where we were born \u2014
\r\n<\/span>Unless Your music comes to set us free
\r\n<\/span>From deafness of the heart, unless You say
\r\n<\/span>Which key to play, unless we sound the horn
\r\n<\/span>You've handed us, proclaiming jubilee.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cShmita: Rest for the Land! Rest for the Soul?\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Bracha Jaffe: The sabbatical year is a pause for the land, but what does it push us to do interpersonally? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWheeling and Dealing: Jewish Thoughts on a Free Market\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Marni Loffman: Exploring Jewish texts on economics. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Whose land is it anyway?<\/em> At the foundation of the laws of this chapter lies a single principle - that there is a <\/span>ba\u2019al bayit<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> an owner or landlord - and it\u2019s not you (or me either\u2026). See for instance verse 23: \u201cthe land is Mine; you are but strangers resident with Me\u201d or verse 55: \u201cFor it is to Me that the Israelites are servants: they are My servants.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. What will we eat?<\/em> Good question. The proposed menu for the 7th, 8th and 9th years can be found in verses 20-22.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Redemption.<\/em> The text uses the term <\/span>geulah<\/span><\/em>, \u201credemption,\u201d to describe the action that a relative can do to return land to its owners and get an early release of the slave. This word choice\u00a0 suggests that even more than being a commendable deed in the social realm, this is an act of moral good that returns a sense of order.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. For rent only<\/em>. The principle of verse 23, \u201cthe land must not be sold beyond reclaim\u201d means that there is no transfer of ownership over land, just a possibility of a sort of leasing, based on the number of years left until the Jubilee (verses 14-16).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Exceptions?<\/em> There are exceptions and variances also in the dealings of land redemption. Look for the laws regarding the \u201cdwelling house in a walled city,\u201d in verse 29.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Leviticus 25","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":"25","chapter_main_number":"115","date":"20260205","wall_id":"115"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/45696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}