(link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Behar – Behukotay Should your brother come to ruin and sell his holding, his redeemer who is related to him shall come and redeem what his brother sold (Vayikra 25:25) And should your brother come to ruin and his hand buckle under you, you shall hold him as a resident alien, and he shall live under you. (Vayikra 25:35) And should your brother come to ruin under you and be sold to you, you shall not work him the work of a slave....
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Behar – Behukotay For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants, whom I took out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord, your God. (Vayikra 25:55) You shall not make false gods for yourselves, nor shall you set up a statue or a monument for yourselves. And in your land you shall not place a pavement stone on which to prostrate yourselves, for I am the Lord, your God....
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Behar – Behukotay And you shall count for yourself seven sabbatical years, seven years seven times. And the days of these seven sabbatical years shall amount to forty nine years for you. (Vayikra 25:8) The Shemittah Year serves to remind us that the land belongs to Him, may He be blessed, and it is given to us from His hand, and we are just aliens and residents with Him and we should not take pride...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Behar – Behukotay AND THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES, SAYING, SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND SAY TO THEM: WHEN A MAN EXPRESSES A VOW, VALUE OF LIVES TO THE LORD… AND IF SIXTY YEARS OLD OR OVER, IF IT IS A MALE, THE VALUE SHALL BE FIFTEEN SHEKELS, WHILE FOR A FEMALE, IT SHALL BE TEN SHEKELS. (Vayikra 27: 1-2,7) And if sixty years...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Behar – Behukotay YOU SHALL OBSERVE MY LAWS AND FAITHFULLY KEEP MY RULES, THAT YOU MAY LIVE UPON THE LAND IN SECURITY; THE LAND SHALL YIELD ITS FRUITS AND YOU SHALL EAT YOUR FILL, AND YOU SHALL LIVE UPON IT IN SECURITY. (Vayikra 25:18-19) You may live upon the land in security – this refers to external political security. You shall live upon it in security – this refers to secure internal physical prosperity....
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Behar – Behukotay IF YOU FOLLOW MY LAWS AND FAITHFULLY OBSERVE MY COMMANDMENTS… I WILL GRANT PEACE IN THE LAND, AND YOU SHALL LIE DOWN UNTROUBLED BY ANYONE; I WILL GIVE THE LAND RESPITE FROM VICIOUS BEASTS, AND NO SWORD SHALL CROSS YOUR LAND… I WILL ESTABLISH MY ABODE IN YOUR MIDST, AND I WILL NOT SPURN YOU. AND I WILL WALK IN YOUR MIDST; I WILL BE YOUR GOD, AND YOU SHALL BE MY...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Parashat Behar – Behukotay YOU SHALL NOT MAKE IDOLS FOR YOURSELVES, OR SET UP FOR YOURSELVES CARVED IMAGES OR PILLARS, OR PLACE FIGURED STONES IN YOUR LAND TO WORSHIP UPON, FOR I THE LORD AM YOUR GOD. YOU SHALL KEEP MY SABBATHS AND VENERATE MY SANCTUARY, MINE, THE LORD'S. (Vayikra 26:1-2) THE SANCTITY OF LIFE IS BOUND UP WITH COVENANT AND REMEMBRANCE, NOT WITH DEAD STONES "Venerate My sanctuary" – this refers to the Jubilee year, for it is written "It shall be holy...