Shmita - Parashat Behar - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

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

Sinai Lemor. Shem speaks to Moshe at Har Sinai and tells him the following. Daber el Bnei Yisrael Lemor, speak to the Bnei Yisrael and say, "Ki savo el ha- el ha- aretz asher ani noten lakhem, when you come to the land which I am giving you, veshovsa ha-aretz shabbat la-Hashem." The land should keep shabbat. The land should celebrate shabbat. The land should uh shovsa really means like land should uh shovsa really means like in modern Hebrew in Israel they call a they call a strike a shevita. Shovsa, it should cease. It should desist from activity. How so? "Shesh shanim tizra sadkha, six years you shall plant so your fields, veshesh shanim tizma karmekha, and six years you shall take in your vineyards, ve'asafta et tevua'ata. Uvashanah hashvi'it, in the seventh year, shabbat shabbaton yihyeh la-aretz year, shabbat shabbaton yihyeh la-aretz shabbat la-Hashem." It is shabbat for Hashem in the seventh year. Sadkha lo sizra, do not plant your fields, vekarmekha lo sizmor. You're not allowed to How do they translate it? Do not prune your prune your vineyards. That means that we're talking about the command for shmita. Talking about the command for the shmita year. That they that that every seventh year in the land of Israel is a shmita year. Now, that's what the Torah is going to discuss over here. Let go back now for a

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