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Dvar Torah Parshat BeHar 5772 2012

The Portion begins by instructing us concerning the laws of Shmita or the Sabbatical year. The fields are to lay fallow, no planting and no harvesting. A number of verses later the Torah says: וְכִי תֹאמְרוּ מַה נֹּאכַל בַּשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁבִיעִת, “If you will say, ‘What will we eat on the seventh year? Behold we will [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Parshat Behar 5771 2011

In today’s Torah reading we are told about the SHNAT HAYOVEL, the Jubilee Year. One of the commands states: UKRATEM DROR BA’ARETZ LECHOL YOSHVE’HA, “…and you shall proclaim freedom throughout the land for all its inhabitants…” (Lev. 25,10) This is a directive to free all Jewish slaves. Slavery was permitted by the Torah because this [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Parshat Behar 5770 2010

In BeChukotai we are promised that if we walk in the path of the Torah Hashem will send us blessings and peace. There will be prosperity in the land and we shall dwell in tranquility and security. The passage ends with the statement by Hashem that he took us out of Egypt and redeemed us [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Parshat Behar Bechukotai 2009 5769

We read the Tochacha, the evil that will befall the Jewish people if they abandon the Torah. Immediately following this portion we read the laws pertaining to the values of people in various stages of their lives if they are eager to contribute their value to the sanctuary. Why the juxtaposition of these two passages? [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Parshat Behar 2008 דבר תורה פרשת בהר 5768

This Shabbat we learn about the requirement to observe a year of SHMITAH. This means that every seventh year the land of Israel is to lie fallow; no work is to be done in the fields and the produce is to be free for all to take. One of the explanations for this law is [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Behar – Bechukotai 2007 – 5767 דבר תורה בהר בחוקותי

The Torah promises reward for those who follow along the path of the prescribed Mitzvot. The expression the Torah uses is IM BECHUKAI TELECHU, “If you walk in my commandments…”.(Lev. 33,3) Obviously the meaning is if you follow my commandments. Why is the term “walk” used? An answer once given is that one should not [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Behar – Bechukotai 2006 – 5766 דבר תורה בהר בחוקותי

The Torah forbids lending money with interest to a fellow Jew. The expression used is ET KASPECHA LO TITEN LO BENESHECH, “do not give him your money for interest.”(Lev. 25,37) The strange thing in this passage is that the next verse that follows immediately states the fact that Hashem took the Jews out of Egypt. [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Behar – Bechukotai 2005 – 5765 דבר תורה בהר בחוקותי

The Torah promises as a reward for observing the Mitzvot blessings of timely rain, of produce and trees and fruit, and other rewards. Then the Torah says: VENATATI SHALOM BA’ARETZ, “And I will send peace to the land … “ (Lev. 26,6) Rashi remarks, perhaps someone will say that there is food, there is drink, [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Behar 2005 – 5765 דבר תורה בהר

Throughout the Torah Hashem speaks to Moshe giving him laws that the Jewish people are obligated to observe. In today’s Sidra we are suddenly told that Hashem spoke to Moshe BEHAR SINAI, on Mt. Sinai. (Lev. 25,1) Most of the Mitzvot were given at Sinai. Why are we unexpectedly told that these instructions came at [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Behar 2003 – 5763 דבר תורה בהר

The Torah talks about selling land and buying it back. It tells us that if a person becomes impoverished and has to sell the land he inherited from his father, then his relative should help him redeem the land to bring it back into the family. In a situation, however, where he has no relative, [ READ MORE ]

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