Aliya Summary: This
Aliya addresses an obvious concern: "What will we eat in the seventh
year if we do not sow our gather our grain?!" G‑d reassures us that He
will bless the sixth year's harvest, and it will produce enough to
provide for three years -- until the crop of the eighth year is ready to
eat! The Torah then
gives the rationale for the prohibition against selling land for
perpetuity (instead, land can only be "leased" until the Jubilee year)
-- "Because the Land belongs to Me; you are strangers and residents with
Me."
Courtesy
of this Aliya, if the Torah was man-made, it would take, at most, six
years to disprove when the sixth year wouldn't provide extra harvest.
Luckily, it's G-d-made, and we always get what we need.
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