“You are to count seven Shabbats of years, seven times seven years, that is, forty-nine years. 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.“-Leviticus 25:8-9 The opening verses of Leviticus chapter 25 were to establish the Sabbath year principle. […]

“You are not to harvest what grows by itself from the seeds left by your previous harvest, and you are not to gather the grapes of your untended vine; it is to be a year of complete rest for the land. But what the land produces during the year of Shabbat will be food for all of you […]

Adonai spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai; he said, “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘When you enter the land I am giving you, the land itself is to observe a Shabbat rest for Adonai.’”-Leviticus 25:1-2 Today we’re going to explore the very important and critical Biblical principle of land tenure as established by YHWH. Look at verse 2 of Leviticus 25 where […]

Way, way, way back when I first started this blog, I used the analogy that the way the Torah is organized is similar to the child rearing process a parent goes through with their children. If you want to take a trip down memory lane, you can read this post (actually it was only the […]

We are now discussing the Year of Jubilee or YOVEL in Hebrew. In my last post I mentioned that one of the main reasons for Jubilee was to give the honest and hard-working individual who fell into poverty through no fault of his own a fresh start.  Now one of the main reasons an ancient […]