“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 […]

Today we begin Leviticus Chapter 25. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. We now come to that place in the Torah where we’re given instructions on the often misunderstood and mysterious “Year of Jubilee”. If there is one singular word that nicely sums up the context of […]