18 May Parshas Behar: Shemittah, The Great Equalizer
In the first of this week’s double parshios, Parshas Behar, we learn of the mitzvah ha’telu’yah ba’Aretz (a mitzvah kept only in the land of Israel): Shemittah, the seventh Sabbatical year. The Torah tells us that when we come to the Land, for six years we...