“If someone among you is needy, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which Adonai your God is giving you, you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from giving to your needy brother.  No, you must open your hand to him and lend him enough to […]

We are deep in the thick of discussing how the Lord’s Laws applied to the poor and their survival in society. In an agricultural-based society, the poor were in a particular bad situation because they didn’t own any land. In those days, land ownership equaled wealth. Period.  The only way the poor could survive was […]

“At the end of every seven years you are to have a sh’mittah.  Here is how the sh’mittah is to be done: every creditor is to give up what he has loaned to his fellow member of the community — he is not to force his neighbor or relative to repay it, because Adonai’s time of […]

“At the end of every seven years you are to have a sh’mittah. Here is how the sh’mittah is to be done: every creditor is to give up what he has loaned to his fellow member of the community — he is not to force his neighbor or relative to repay it, because Adonai’s time […]

Today we begin Deuteronomy Chapter 15. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. Deuteronomy Chapter 15 continues to deal with HASHEM’s instructions concerning helping the poor and those who are disadvantaged whether economically or physically. In this chapter and those to follow, we will see that not only […]