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Parsha Halacha — a Behar 83 Chanamel and Baruch — Behar-Bechukosai 5783

Выпуск: Parsha Halacha — a Behar 83 Chanamel and Baruch — Behar-Bechukosai 5783. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. If a family member redeemed it, the field would go back to the original owner at the Yovel year.2 For practical reasons people in those days would first offer to sell their fields to their relatives rather than to strangers since if one sells it to a non-family member the property could be redeemed within a short period of time. Parsha Halacha - Parshat Behar-Bechukotai/Shabbat Chazak Buying the Field in Anatot The Only Real-Estate Deed in the Tanach Sponsored by Jackie and Johana Abraham in honor of their wedding anniversary Parsha Halacha is underwritten by a grant from Dr. Morton Borg in loving memory of Stephen's father, Shmuel Tzvi ben Pinchas, and Bella's and Morton's parents, Avraham ben Yitzchak and Leah bas HaRav Sholom Zev HaCohen To sponsor or subscribe, please email rabbicitron@hotmail.com In the Torah portion of Behar, we find the laws of selling and redeeming one’s land in Israel.1 The law is that if one sells a field which is part of their ancestral inheritance the sale is only a long-term lease because it reverts to the owner on the Yovel (Jubilee) year. As such we find that when Naomi, the mother in law of Ruth, wanted to sell her field, it was first offered to her husband’s uncle, and when he refused to buy it, her husband’s cousin Boaz bought it.3 A sale of this sort is recorded in the Haftorah of Behar4 (which we do not read this year5) which discusses the sale of a field from Chanamel, son of Shalum, to his cousin, Jeremiah the prophet (see below). 428:8) and Nitzavim-VaYelech 1 which was the native town of Jeremiah and is likely the town of Anta, Israel.6 Although Jeremiah himself had prophesized that Anatot would be completely destroyed7 and the city of Jerusalem was already under siege and near destruction, G-d wanted Jeremiah to purchase the field to give hope to the Jewish people that they would indeed be returning to the land at the end of the Babylonian exile in a “mere” 70 years. Jeremiah instructed his student and scribe, Baruch ben Neriyah, to write down the transaction, have it duly witnessed, signed and placed it in a terra cotta container to preserve it for many years.8 To

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Parsha Halacha

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12 мая 2023 г.

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4

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary