{"id":5316,"date":"2016-05-24T17:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2016-05-25T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T10:19:01","slug":"2728-may-parshat-behar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/2728-may-parshat-behar\/","title":{"rendered":"27\/28 May: Parshat Behar (HEMS and Reform)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-852\" src=\"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/rabbipaulsml.jpg\" alt=\"rabbipaulsml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><em>Shabbat comes in 8.48 pm: goes out 10.06 pm\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In Parshat Behar, we read of the rights of landowners and the legalities of the sale and mortgaging of land.\u00a0 We are given the laws of the sabbatical year, when sowing and reaping of fields, and pruning and picking of vines are prohibited; although crops that grow naturally are allowed to be picked.\u00a0 Every fiftieth year is the Jubilee.\u00a0 In addition, all land returns to its original owners.<\/p>\n<p>The Torah has set up a system against economic fraud or exploitation.\u00a0 It teaches that sales of land are to be considered leases, not final sales.\u00a0 In the event that someone wanted to buy out that lease, the value of the lease is a function of the number of crop years remaining until the next Jubilee.\u00a0 It is not socialism, it is capitalism with limits.\u00a0 When I was younger, I perhaps didn\u2019t appreciate the need for this law \u2014 but now that I see too many examples of the rich becoming too rich and the poor becoming too poor \u2014 I better understand its wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat Shalom,<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; min-height: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; min-height: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in 8.48 pm: goes out 10.06 pm\u00a0 In Parshat Behar, we read of the rights of landowners and the legalities of the sale and mortgaging of land.\u00a0 We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-shabbat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5332,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}