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 […]
L25-3: TORAH is organized in a way that resembles the maturing process of a human being
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 […]
L25-2: Israel, throughout their entire history, was an agricultural society
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 […]
L25-1: The Jubilee was the supreme demonstration of God’s grace towards His People
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 […]
L24-10: Is the Hebrew idiom ‘EYE FOR EYE AND TOOTH FOR TOOTH’ to be taken literally?
“Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life. If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him — break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth — whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return.”-Leviticus 24:18-20 […]
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