Parsha Illuminated - Behar/Bechukosai: Shemittah: G-'ds Land, Our Land

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

Okay, para illuminated for another double para parasi and I hope that we will touch on both a little bit of bahar and a little bit of kosai and even one idea that overlaps the two parhas. So we'll begin at the beginning which is uh the beginning of paras Bahar talks about the commandment of Schmita to let the land of Israel layow every seven years and we could begin in the beginning of chapter 25 verse one by Hashem spoke to Moshei at Mount Si saying Israel speak to the children of Israel and say to them When you come to the land that I give you, the land shall rest a Sabbath to the Lord. For six years you shall plant your field. For six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in your produce. But in the seventh year, it shall be a shab complete Sabbath for the landm a Sabbath to God. Then you shall not plant your field. Shall not prune your vineyard. You shall not reap the here they say the aftergrowth of your harvest. Meaning even things that grow on their own even though you didn't plant. is and the grapes that um here they say that you have set aside you shall not harvest them. It shall be a year of rest for the land. So it says not to harvest. We'll see in the next verse it says that you can harvest. We mean don't harvest like

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1. 0:02Okay, para illuminated for another double para parasi and I hope that we will touch on…
2. 4:16seventh day he did not create he did not create anything. He imposed rest on himself…
3. 8:27should be keeping the laws of but that's not the that's not the that's not the…
4. 12:52we are not willing to to indicate to show that then God says well if you…
5. 17:08in the land of Israel and not the rest of the of the world inuts in…
6. 22:09because that's the key here is that we are we are testifying we are reminding ing…
7. 26:26working the land, it's going to continue to grow. As it says in verse 5, the…
8. 30:49um he says in a certain way the land does get its rest because the way…
9. 35:05look into that further to verify okay turning to parasi the beginning of the para begins,…
10. 39:26time for studying Torah. And and he says that first of all, that's implied by the…

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