Parshat Behar: The true master of Israel

14.05.2011                      10.Ijar, 5771                      Behar; Tag 25 des Omer

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Parshat Behar: The true master of Israel

"That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land" (Leviticus 25:5).

‘For the Land shall not be sold in perpetuity, because the Land belongs to Me: You are strangers and residents upon it together with Me’ (Leviticus 25:23) 
The Zohar teaches that the nation Israel, the Torah, and the Holy One, Blessed be He, are one: This suggests that God may be experienced through those phenomena which are also perceived to be eternal; hence, since the covenantal nation Israel is eternal (by divine oath, Genesis 15) and since the Torah is eternal, Israel, Torah and God are inextricably linked by virtue of their common eternity….