General Overview: This week's reading, Behar, speaks about the
Sabbatical and Jubilee years, laws regulating commerce and the
redemption of slaves.
Aliya Summary: G‑d commands Moshe
regarding the Shemita (Sabbatical) and Jubilee years. Every seventh
year is a Sabbatical year, when it is forbidden to work the land (in the
Land of Israel). After seven sets of seven years a Jubilee year is
proclaimed by a blast of the shofar (ram's horn) on that year's Yom
Kippur. During Jubilee years all the laws of the Sabbatical year apply,
and, in addition to the Sabbatical laws, all slaves are set free and all
lands revert to their original owners.
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