Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Behar By the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy from your fellow, and by the number of years of yield he shall sell to You. The larger the number of years, the more you shall pay for its purchase and the smaller the number of years, the less shall you pay for its purchase. (Vayikra 25:15-16)   By the number of years after the Jubilee shall you buy – this is the simple meaning...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Behar "And the land's Sabbath shall be food for you". Not for commerce, nor for waste nor for sprinkling nor for steeping nor for laundering, but eating it is permitted, and also wherever the benefit comes together with its consumption as with eating. For you and your male servant and your maid servant. That is to say, all are equal, just as they cannot be excluded because is hiker , and...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Behar YOU MAY SOW YOUR FIELD FOR SIX YEARS, AND FOR SIX YEARS YOU MAY PRUNE YOUR VINEYARD, AND GATHER IN ITS PRODUCE, BUT IN THE SEVENTH YEAR, THE LAND SHALL HAVE A COMPLETE REST A SABBATH TO THE LORD; YOU SHALL NOT SOW YOUR FIELD, NOR SHALL YOU PRUNE YOUR VINEYARD. (Vayikra 25:3-4)   The commandment of the Shemittah year is similar to the commandment of the Sabbath, since just as the commandment of...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Behar SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND SAY TO THEM: WHEN YOU ENTER THE LAND THAT I GIVE YOU, THE LAND SHALL OBSERVE A SABBATH OF THE LORD.  (Vayikra 25:2)   The earth is the Lord's and all that it contains A Sabbath of the Lord – For the Lord's sake, that you must not think like farmers who let the land lay fallow one year in seven to preserve it fruitfulness. Rather, do...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Behar DO NOT MALTREAT ONE ANOTHER, BUT FEAR YOUR GOD; FOR I THE LORD AM YOUR GOD YOU SHALL OBSERVE MY LAWS AND FAITHFULLY KEEP MY RULES, SO THAT YOU MAY LIVE UPON THE LAND IN SECURITY. (Vayikra 25: 17-18)   "Do Not Maltreat… That You May Live Upon The Land In Security" DWELLING IN THE LAND IN SECURITY IS DEPENDENT UPON THE EXISTENCE OF AN ENLIGHTENED SOCIETY. Rebbi prepared a feast for his disciples....

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Parshat Behar Behukotay "And you shall proclaim freedom throughout the land for all its inhabitants ; it shall be a jubilee for you; each of you shall return to his holding and each of you shall return to his family" According to the Kaballah: "Freedom" (dror) – linguistically related to "A generation goes and a generation comes" ("Dor holech v'dor ba") (Kohellet 1:4). And so "jubilee" (yovel) means that he will return to the spring (yuval) which nurtured his roots, and it shall be yours." (Ramban, Vayikra...