Rav Saadia Gaon

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So good morning. So let's start with this week's para. This week's para is a double again. It is bahar which means the mountain. Hashem spoke to Mosha on the mountain and um my statutes. And these are the last two parasikra the book of Leviticus. So at the end of this week we are we finish the third book of the Torah. We are three fifths of the way through the Torah. Now the para starts off by Hashem Torah. Now the para starts off by Hashem telling giving Mosha instructions about the keeping the sabbatical year. Every seven years the land of Israel the land should lay fellow should not be worked and anything that grows in the land on its own should become ownerless. every you do seven of these seven shmita cycles and you and then the and then the 50th year is a yo or jubilee cycle. Jubilee is actually a anglicized version of the Hebrew word Yavel but it's every 50 years and then in addition to the 50 years and then in addition to the land again laying fellow in addition all land that belonged to people in the land of Israel which was given to them when they first enter the land and it stays in the family passing on from parent to child over generations. Um you can not sell it. It can only be leased until the yo year. when the yova year comes, it goes back to its original owners. And so therefore, it can never be sold. It always um remains in the hands of um the original family. Um in addition, a

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