Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parshat Behar 1

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good evening we are learning parashat Bihar we are on page 697 of the art scroll hamash and parashat Bihar has 24 minutes what 17 positive and it's seven negative I'm sorry 17 negative seven positive altogether 24. and the first topic is shimita the sabbatical year chapter 25 shimita the sabbatical year chapter 25 Hashem spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai Singh when you come into the land that I give you the land shall observe a Shabbat rest for Hashem for six years you may sow your field and for six years you may prune your Vineyard and you may gather its crop Vineyard and you may gather its crop so the Torah tells us that of allowing your land to rest for one year applies only in the land of Israel and the entire land must be worked for six years and the seventh year the entire land is allowed to rest unlike what is done elsewhere which is a good what is done elsewhere which is a good thing to do anyway to rotate crops and allow the land to lie Fallout that it can regain its strength but but by other nations they do it uh piece by piece either there are two options either they plant different plants one plant uses uh one kind of nutrient another plant uses another kind of nutrient one plant another kind of nutrient one plant affects the land one way another plant affects the land a different way so that's called crop rotation you plant wheat on this field one year potatoes on the different part of the field and then you rotate it or another option is you divide all your Fields into a six into um seven parts and you only use six parts every year

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1. 0:02good evening we are learning parashat Bihar we are on page 697 of the art scroll…
2. 2:34and you only use six parts every year the seventh is not worked and then the…
3. 5:44forbids Harvest because Harvest is done by the owner and we're not the owners we're not…
4. 8:50the land and he allowed us to use it he gave it to us for our…
5. 11:55we count seven weeks and the 50th day is the holiday so too in our greatest…
6. 15:03the new owner has to return it to the original owner for free and you shall…
7. 17:35and if he agrees he knows that you're selling it more expensive and he has option…
8. 20:40financially we're also not allowed to hurt him verbally verbal abuse is and negative commandment it's…
9. 23:52I'm asking you one thing just listen to me do what I ask you to do…
10. 26:59so and to wait um for the Harvest and then you will sow in the eighth…

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