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Dvar Behar
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This week's Parsha, Behar, relates that G-d spoke to Moshe
(Moses) on Mount Sinai, saying that for six years you may plant
your fields, but the seventh year is a Sabbath for the land. Why
does the Torah specify that G-d is speaking on "Mount Sinai?"
The answer is because the Sabbatical year is one mitzvah which
proves that only G-d could be the Author who gave the Torah on
Mount Sinai, because it is there that He promises that the year
before the Sabbatical will provide enough crops for the next
three years (25:20-21). No human being would ever write this law
because it would be disproved within six years! The fact that
G-d chose to display his control using this commandment also
teaches us a lesson about our accomplishments. If G-d chooses to
give us more (crops, money or otherwise), He can do so by having
us win the lottery where it's obvious that He intervened, or he
can make our companies and crops suddenly produce better where
we can be tempted to take the credit for the increase. It's up
to us to see the bigger picture, and recognize the value of G-d's
commitment to those that appreciate Him. |
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Quotation of the Week (thanks to Jess - very fitting ;): |
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"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a
family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." --Jane
Howard (1935-1996) |
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