Behar

Behar, is the thirty-second reading of the Torah Portion. It is usually read together with Bechukotai. The word Behar, which means “on the mountain,” is used at the very beginning of the teaching “The Creator said to Moses on Mt. Sinai….” This Torah Portion describe the Laws of bechukotai means “In My statues” and appears in the first verse of the reading, which generally promise good things if the Torah is followed and negativity things if spiritual principle are not followed.

In this Torah Portion of Behar, we read about shmittah, a time when all the Land remain fallow, or unworked, for an entire year. Shimittah occurs every seven years in the Land of Yisrael. The Torah say that the CREATOR instruct Moses to speak to the Yisraelites at Mt Sinai and tell them, “Six years shall you sow you field and  six year shall you prune your vineyard and gather in the produce of the land. But on the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to YAHVEH, you shall neither sow or prune your field.”

One of the gift of Sabbath Behar is certainty, that even when circumstances does not make sense, we can acquire the gift of centainty. On this day we consider the certainty require of people to sit and do no farming for a whole year, while the farm is overrun with weed. Shmittah and Torah Portion Behar is about setting aside logic for faith in Messiyah and ABBA YAHVEH. When we do this, then we are tamim, im YAHVEH HaElokecha, simple, and with the CREATOR.

The Shemittah/Sabbatical year has a very special relationship to Mount Sinai. It was at Mount Sinai, יהוה Shechinah was manifested. It was clear to all that the whole purpose of our existence was to be transformed by the Shechinah into a Holy People.

The concept of the Land rested, is a prophetic indicator of the purpose of יהוה for His people. The Children of Yisrael was suppose to become a nation of Mopses, a royal priesthood, and Holy Nation, a people who were fully into יהוה rest.

In this chapter יהוה is again trying to drive home the message of Creation, this time using the yearly cycle. As one day also represent one year, one Torah Cycle; so does a tree in the natural goes through four seasons, so does the believer when he goes trough a Torah Cycle.

The Land rested in the seventh year, too, teaches that the primary reason for the Creation of the universe is to bring us into יהוה rest. By leaving our field untended and undeveloped for one year, the Hebrew people demonstrate that this world is but a corridor leading to the ultimate world, that true life comes when we come into our Shimittah or Sabbatical year. When believers will stop struggling against the flesh, strive striving for material gain, for the spiritual gain of the sixth year will be a blessing for the Shimittah year.

The Shimittah year is only one in seven years; that is why the Torah states clearly that man must sow and harvest for six year, just as it took EL YAHVEH six days to Create a perfect Adam, He is still trying to Create more perfect sons today.