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The Sidra Behar Sinai (Leviticus 25) focuses
on legislation intended to ensure that people-especially people in distressmay
enjoy a secure life. The land itself must be taken care of. Land sold
reverts to the original owner in the fiftieth year, the year of jubilee:
When you enter the land that I am giving you, let the land observe
a Sabbath in honor of the Eternal One. Six years you shall sow your field
. . . but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest
for the land .... You shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all
its inhabitants (25:2,10). We are tenants, not owners, of the ground
we walk on.
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May 17,
2003
15 Iyyar, 5763
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