“If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from him, neither of you is to exploit the other.  Rather, you are to take into account the number of years after the yovel when you buy land from your neighbor, and he is to sell to you according to the number of years crops will be […]

At this point in our study of how property ownership operated under the Law of Moses, it should now be clear that the maximum amount of time somebody who acquired a piece of land from its original owner could hold on to it is 49 years.  Once the Jubilee year swung around, that land had […]

“That fiftieth year will be a yovel for you; in that year you are not to sow, harvest what grows by itself or gather the grapes of untended vines; 12 because it is a yovel. It will be holy for you; whatever the fields produce will be food for all of you. In this year of yovel, every one of you is to […]

“Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom-Kippur, you are to sound a blast on the shofar; you are to sound the shofar all through your land; and you are to consecrate the fiftieth year, proclaiming freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants.”-Leviticus 25:9-10 Verse 10 of Leviticus 25 contains an extremely important phrase that can […]

“That fiftieth year will be a yovel for you; in that year you are not to sow, harvest what grows by itself or gather the grapes of untended vines; because it is a yovel. It will be holy for you; whatever the fields produce will be food for all of you. In this year of yovel, every one of you is to […]