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Vayikra/ Leviticus
25:1–26:2
The name of the Parshah, “Behar,” means “on Mount [Sinai]” and it is
found in Leviticus 25:1.
On the mountain of Sinai, YEHOVAH communicates to Moses the laws of the
Sabbatical year: every seventh year, all work on the land should cease,
and its produce becomes free for the taking for all, man and beast.
Seven Sabbatical cycles are followed by a fiftieth year—the Jubilee
year, on which work on the land ceases, all indentured servants are set
free, and all ancestral estates in the Holy Land that have been sold
revert to their original owners.
Behar also contains additional laws governing the sale of lands, and the
prohibitions against fraud and usury.
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