All posts in: Behar

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  Behar

  6 years ago

  What I learned from a burned out radiator pipe

  And if you will ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year; for we will not sow or gather in our crops?!” I will enact My blessing for you in the sixth year ..

  Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
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• Behar

  6 months ago

  Putting the WE in Charity

    Behar: Putting the “We” in Charity I once read an excerpt from a talk given by Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik where he contrasts the root of the word charity ..

  Written by Rabbi Aryeh Dachs
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  Behar

  5 years ago

  Be a welcome guest

  But in the seventh year, there shall be a complete rest for the Land. . . (25:4) The Torah tells us the strict punishment for working the land of Eretz Yisroel during ..

  Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
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  Behar

  7 years ago

  What will they eat?

  And if you will say, ‘What will we eat in the seventh (Shmitta) year? We will not sow nor gather our crops.’ I will give My blessing to you in the sixth year ..

  Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
• Behar

  7 years ago

  It’s our fruit and our land

  In this weeks parasha we read about shmita. If we look closely at the pesukim leading up to shmita the torah uses a language that it is our land. For example in posak ..

  Written by Dovid Manson
• Behar

  7 years ago

  I know it’s hard, but… (Yovel)

  Our sedra of Behar concerns the Shmittah year; a year in which fields are to be left fallow and loans cancelled (conditions apply). The culmination of the Shmittah ..

  Written by d fine
• Behar

  7 years ago

  What we gonna eat for dinner??

  Parshas Behar discusses the many aspects of Shemitah and Yovel, detailing how Bnei Yisroel must abstain from working the land in the seventh and fiftieth years of the calendar ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Behar

  7 years ago

  Question.. Why does it again say “Keep my shabbos, Fear my Sanctuary…”

  The possuk states, “You shall keep My Shabboses and fear My Sanctuary. I am G-d” This possuk comes just after the Torah talks about serving Avodah Zorah. ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Behar

  7 years ago

  Shmittah is a proof of the revelation at Sinai!!

  The parsha starts by telling us that Hashem spoke to Moshe on Har Sinai. Then it goes on to talk about Shmita. Rashi asks, “Mah Inyan Shmita Eitzel Har Sinai”; ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Behar

  7 years ago

  servants of HaShem (short)

  At the yovel (50th) year, slaves go free. The Torah gives a reason for this law; HaShem says it is ‘because Bnei Yisrael are MY servants…’ (25;45) ..

  Written by d fine