The Talmud in Bava Metzia 56a teaches that the sale of land is not subject to price fraud.This is derived from Parsha Behar, Vayikra 25:14:If you sell anything to your neighbor, or purchase something from the hand of your neighbor, do not cheat one another.The...
We first learn about the laws of Shmita (the Sabbatical year) in Parshat Mishpatim, Shmot 23:10-11:Six years shall you sow your land and gather in its produce. And in the seventh, you shall leave it untended and unharvested, and the destitute of your people shall...
As we get closer to the Shmita (Sabbatical) year which begins on Rosh HaShana, we will have to consider where to shop. For those who would like to benefit from having the opportunity to eat produce with Kdushat Shviit (Holiness of the Sabbatical year), buying...
In Parshat Behar (VaYikra 25:25-28) we read:If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his ancestral land, and a close relative comes and redeems that which his brother had sold. Or if the man has no redeemer (close relative) but has acquired sufficient...
In Parshat Behar (Vayikra 25:20-22) we learn about the plan for a successful shmita (sabbatical) year in the Land of Israel:If you shall say “What will we eat in the seventh year, for we have not planted nor gathered our produce”? I shall direct my...
In Parshat Behar, we see that activism dates back to the days of the Torah. During the Shmita (Sabbatical) year we are taught to have compassion for those who have less as ideally all of the fields should be “hefker”, left open for others to take what...
Parshat Behar opens with the laws of Shmita which are only effect in the Land of Israel. Every seventh year, the land takes an agricultural break and the produce which is grown on the land is treated as holy. Those living in Israel are very careful during the...
We see the importance of the number seven in Parshat Behar, Vayikra 25:8-10: You shall count for yourself seven shmita (sabbatical) years, seven years, seven times and it shall be for you, the days (period) of the seven sabbatical years, forty-nine years. You shall...
Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook (1865-1935), First Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael describes the spirituality of the Shmita year in his work Shabbat HaAretz (The Sabbath of the Land): Life can only be perfected through the affording of a breathing space from...
Parshat Behar (Vayikra 25) commands us to observe the Shmita year. We are commanded to let the Land of Israel rest every seventh year. It is a year where all of the produce that is grown is technically “up for grabs” and everyone is considered...
In Parshat Behar, we learn about the Shmita (Sabbatical) year. We are told that when the Jewish people arrive in the Land of Israel they are to work the land for six years and to let the land lay fallow in the seventh. In Vayikra 25:6 it says “The...
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Parshat Behar stresses the importance of preventing poverty.“If your brother becomes impoverished and his means falter in your proximity, you shall strengthen him- convert or resident, so that he may live with you. Do not give him your money for interest and...
At the beginning of Parshat Behar (Vayikra 25:2-7) we are commanded to observe the mitzvah of Shmitah (the Sabbatical year): "When you come to the land which I give to you, the land shall be at rest, a Shabbat for God. For six years you shall plant your field and...
In Parshat Behar, Vayikra 25:38 we read: “Ani HaShem Elokeichem asher hotzeiti etchem m’Eretz Mitzrayim latet lachem et Eretz C’naan lehiyot lachem l’Elokim”. “I am your God who brought you out from the Land of Egypt to give you...