Parsha Perspectives for Today (Behar-Bechukosai, 5781) - Rededicating After Devastation

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

in safer Vayikra, which makes it challenging to keep up with Shnayim Mikra v'Echad Targum. It makes it challenging to be able to try to offer insights on both Parshas each time in the Parsha class. As always, our examination of these Parshios are with a perspective on today, not simply Parsha news, not that there's anything wrong with that, but trying to glean from them the messages, the lessons that are timely, that are contemporary, and that are for us today. We begin on page 696 in the Artscroll Chumash, Vayidaber Hashem el Moshe b'Har Sinai lemor. God spoke to Moshe at Har Sinai saying, Daber el Bnei Yisrael v'amarta aleihem, ki savou el ha'aretz asher ani nosen lachem, v'shavta ha'aretz shabbat la'Hashem. When you go into the land, when you conquer, when you realize the dream of why I took you out of Egypt, not simply to be some secular political entity, but to enter a land of Israel and to forge a righteous and religious destiny, a covenantal community, what I want you to know and remember is v'shavta ha'aretz, the land has to rest. So, even before I tell you to work it, I'm already telling you that it will need to rest. Want to begin with a few of Druks, three of Druks on this opening. We're going to see a lot of other insights as well, but this year we've been focusing on the beautiful insights of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Druk in his magnificent work Eish Tamid. So, Rashi tells us b'Har Sinai, says Rashi, mah inyan Shmita Etzel Har Sinai? What has become a famous euphemism or comment when we want to say what does one thing have to do with the other? We say Ma Inyan Shmita Etzel Har

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