Behar

BEHAR

Leviticus 25:1 -26:1

Please Pray this

Prayer

First before reading.

In the name of Yahushua

Our Messiyah, (Jesus Christ)

I pray for the Spirit of Understanding

The Spirit of Knowledge and

The Spirit of Wisdom

As I read through this Parashas

Behar, is the 32nd 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 Shabbat of solemn rest for the land, a Shabbat to YAHWEH, you shall neither sow or prune your field.”

One of the gift of Shabbat Behar is certainty, that even when circumstances does not make sense, we can acquire the gift of certainty. 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 YAHWEH. When we do this, then we are tamim, im YAHWEH 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 YAHWEH six days to Create a perfect Adam, He is still trying to Create more perfect sons today, those who He can bestowd blessing.

Before We can even began to ask what can I do to ensure that we have only blessing and not curse in our lives, we meed to understand what blessings and curses actually are. We know Satan’s most powerful curse Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,   Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings  because it is a direct negation of the Essence of Yahweh, which are only love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance.

The difficulty is that everyone in this world thinks they know what thue happiness is. It seems so simple: everyone who can get what he or she eants in life is happy. Because of this belief, we think that anyone with power or money of fame, what I call the Hollwood sindrom  must be happy.

We are forever hearing: they must be happy they have all the money. However if we look closely among the movie stars that are found dead, there l;ive are the most problem-ridden, with drug abuse. Many of these socalled movie stars have never experience a moment of happiness all year long, except when they are high on something.

We now see how superficial our perspective on happiness is. If we want to find true happy people, everyone must must look within themselves. We should not look to our friends or family for an answer. Just because a person has certain toys does not mean he or she is happy. When we claim to know what happiness is, we are speaking about momentary, emhemeral happiness, when what we really want to know about is the happiness experience by people whose faces glow all the time, who co not need physical things to bring them joy. Sure, these same people go to the movies and buy expensive toys for themselves, but that is not what brings them happiness.

There are people who go night club hopping every weekend, seeking the ultimate high, all night they must keep moving. If they are not enjoying themselves they move to the next club. Why do they keep going from from one experience to another? Because children of darkness cannot see the joy in themselves even if it is staring them in the face.

Surface joy is only 5% as soon as we enjoy it it past away. So we look for something else to give us another hit or high, and then another and another. Just like in a movie, the moment the entertainment is over, the pleasure cease. Almost every pleasure in the 5% of this world is momentary and temporary.

The truth is this world and its 5% is too fast paced. Everything we desire must come to us immediately or we become bored, depressed, irritable and angry. It seems impossible to find lasting happiness in such a world. Whenever a new fad such as a new iphone, everyone runs after it. Six month later a new model and we run after it also. New computer, new games, everyone wants to be the first to see the latest Star Wars movie, so we line up around the block in the rain to see it.

Peop[le think that these things will bring them happiness, but we know this is not true because we would not run after the second thing if the first thing had brought us true happiness. The same principle apply for food, the taste disappears almost as soon as we swallow it. This example is typified by the way we eat peanuts, before we even finish one nut we put another in our mouth.

If we should ask the poor, those who barley make end meet who hardly have enough to eat, if they are happy what would they say? They work hard all day, some even two jobs, yet they are at the botton of the economic ladder. They even think that those who are whealty are happer than they are.

If we should ever ask anyone who is rich, those who can afford to spend lavelously, about happiness, what do you think they would say. We are not always happy and we have not found what true happaness is. Thankfull, it is not that way for everyone, but most affluent people experience problems as does the poor.

It seems that neither the rich or the poor man do not have a manipoly on happiness. So we  need to ask the question how can happiness be found. As believers we know that this is possible, because the Creator created this world only so that we and the rest of Creation would take pleasure in it.

How can we correct all of this so that our sadness will be replace with happiness? We must first understand that the Source of all happiness is the Holly Spirit. Bba Yahweh designed the path for us to achieved happiness, but to truly understand this, it is important to also understand the curse of Satan the 5% the curse that that place limitation on our happiness and pleasure in this experience we called life.

Where does the problem the problem lie? It must lie within, for the Creator has no flaws and created the world perfectly; we are the ones who destroy the creation of this world.

Behar means on the mountain. In this chapter, the mountain is refered to is Mt. Sinai, actually it is one of the smallest mountain range in the world. Sinai represent those who have achieve spiritual maturity and still remain humble in spirit. When we connect to the energy of Mt Sinai we will make connection to the energy that relinquishing our selfish ego.

Lev 25:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai, saying,  - 39 times in this book it says that EL YAHWEH spoke to Moses, this is the 38 time in this chapter that Torah describe the occasion, when He, יהוה spoke to Moses.

On Mount Sinai, what is the spiritual connection between Shemittah and Mount Sinai? This reference teaches that not only was the Foundation, the Summary of Torah was given at Mount Sinai, so was the principle of Shemittah, as the forth commandment alluded to.

This command teaches us that not only EL YAHWEH is the Author of Torah, but also everything is design according to Torah. The year before the Shemittah year, the field will produce a crop large enough to last for three years, until the next crop become available.

From a spiritual point of view, what is יהוה purpose for us? Is it obvious that He want to bring us to a form of holiness where He can talk to us?

   

Lev 25:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath to יהוה. - This is the instruction for those who come to maturity, those who posses the promise land, you will be require to keep the Sabbath.

As there is a seventh day, there is a seventh year and there is also a seventh millennium. It is those who keep the seventh day that will fulfilled the seven year, that will be able to rule and reign with El Yahushua.

Lev 25:3 ‘Six years you sow your field, and six years you prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit, - These people who come to maturity, you may sow the Torah into the hearts of the people for six years, the six days or the six years of Creation. During that time you can prune the vineyard, those who are under your spiritual care, and help them to produce the fruits of the Spirit as you help them to build their personal Menorah.

Lev 25:4 but in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to יהוה. Do not sow your field and do not prune your vineyard. יהוה   - Whatever happens in the natural has a spiritual counterpart. Just as we are required to rest our land every seventh year, so it is in the spiritual realm. The seventh year is a sign of the Believers coming into their spiritual rest, or spiritual perfection. Heb 4:1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering into His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the Good News was brought to us as well as to them, but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mixed with belief in those who heard it. 3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, as He has said, “As I swore in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest...” And yet His works have come into being from the foundation of the world. 4 For somewhere He has said thus about the seventh day, “And Elohim rested on the seventh day from all His works, We cannot find a more compelling scripture that elucidate the very essence of Sabbath than this one. This is the verse that the Holy Spirit uses to change my mind from Sunday to Sabbath worship. This Scripture is riveted in my mind forever. That is what the spirit of understanding does to believers.

There is a shemitah, r sabbatical, every seven years or cycle in Yisrael. Just as people rest  from the toil of work every week on Sabbath, the land of Yisrael must disconnect from the world of Malchut the physical world every seventh year. So every seven years, the land of Yisrael cannot be worked.

When Yisrael takes care of itself, this helps the rest of the world. For us, too, a constant connection to the Physical world will not work; we also need a connection to the 95% reality the spiritual light.

This is the greater reality that we cannot perceive from the limited point of view of our five senses, which can comprehend only the 5% illusionary reality, the physical world. Sabbath is our chance to disconnect from this physical reality so that we can become elevated to the spiritual realm.

Lev 25:5 ‘Do not reap what grows of its own of your harvest, and do not gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is a year of rest for the land. – Do not reap the produce of the seeds that were not planted intentionally, but that fell onto the soil during the harvest of the sixth year crop.

The fruit of the spirit of those who came to justification, initial salvation, should not be included in the harvest of those who have completed their sixth year. That is why we are told not to harvest the fruit of a tree for the first three years, and even on the forth year it is to be Holy unto EL YAHWEH.  

Lev 25:6 ‘And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food, for you and your servant, and for your female servant and your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you, - Those of us who reach our sixth day of Creation, will become a Pot of Manna, spiritual food for others. They can now be used to teach your servants both male and female and any new comers among the community.

This speaks volume to those who have called themselves Pastors. Have you completed your sixth day of Creation, have you become the Pot of Manna, have your made it into the Holy of Holies. Then you have no right to be called a minister, or a Kohanim. 

The obvious questions to be considered in the Shmittah year is how the believers are going to fee themselves if they cannot grow food on their land for one year. The Torah goes on to address this predicament, “Then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for three years. And you shall sow on the eight year, and still eat the produce of the sixth year, until the ninth year.”

Lev 25:7 and for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land. All its crops are for food. -  This Shemitteh does not seem to apply to livestock and beast. From a spiritual point of view, livestock are those who are in the flesh, and the beasts are those who are not save.

Verse 8 – 22 describes the Yovel/Jubilee Year. The Jubilee laws drives home the to the believers that the purpose of Creation is a Divine gift and that those who take hold of it, are those who believe in El Yahushua and keep His Commandments. By counting the years as we count the Omer, we are living in expectation of the fulfillment of the Shekinah Glory, which came upon Mount Sinai forty-nine days after they leave Egypt.

The Light of the Creator flows continuously for eternity, and if we never had any doubt about it, the Light would flow to us forever. But every time we manifest doubt, we shut off the flow of the Light from the CREATOR.

The gift we received on the Shabbat of Behar is an opening to receive thekind of faith, that even when everything around us seems illogical, we will have the certainty Abraham.

Lev 25:8 ‘And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. – The command to count for the jubilee is for everyone, as it is for the counting of the Omer. I see the counting of the days, the counting of the years, how about the counting of the Thousands? Maybe the counting of the Thousand will be in the Kingdom to Come. Fifty Thousand years is a little above the life span of humans, but not for gods.

 

Lev 25:9 ‘You shall then sound a broken blast on the shofar on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement cause a ram’s horn to pass through all your land. – This broken blast must be followed be preceded and followed by a long, clear shofar blast Tekiah, so that the shofar ceremony of the Jubilee is identical to that of Rosh Hashanah. This must be done in all the land, in every believer’s house. 

Lev 25:10 ‘And you shall set the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Jubilee for you. And each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you return to his clan. – The fiftieth year is a year of release; all slaves must be set free to return to their tribes, their homes.

All Hebrew slaves must be freed even if they have not worked the usual minimum of six years, or if they have elected to remain with their master after the six years are up.

We must remember that when Torah speaks of slave, it is not slavery in the natural sense. Slavery in the Hebrew context means that that person is under authority of a Hebrew master who must treat him or her as if they were his own sons, and teach them Torah also.

After the individual who was under authority, reaches Maturity, he may choose to remain with his master or it is still his choice to go free. In the Hebrew community, been a slave is a blessed position, you will have both physical and spiritual food, and you will not be taken advantage.

During this time a servant have the right to move to another master if they wish. This could also mean that in the kingdom to come, we might have the opportunity, to move between masters after every fifty years. For example, if you were under authority to Moses, you could have the opportunity to move under the authority of David, or who ever you choose.

There is ayovel or jubilee year, after every 49 year. Therefore every 50 year, the Land of Yisrael cannot be worked. Disconnection from Malchut every seven years is important, but the 50^th year connect is even more vital, since it connect to the energy and consciousness of Binah “Understanding” it is necessary to disconnect from this world of physicality.

 Consequently, we have to make true sacrifices that transform and elevate us because this is when and how we connect to the 95% the Spiritual realm. Metaphorically, land is not just a place where we live, but also a whole new incarnation. Every time we move into a new house or change the city we live in, we acquire part of the tikkun, or correction of that land. When we move or make major change in our lives, we should expect new and different things to happen.

Lev 25:11 ‘The fiftieth year is a Jubilee to you. Do not sow, nor reap what grows of its own, nor gather from its unpruned vine. - The term Jubilee, comes from the root word yovel means ram. Thus the name of the year alludes to the blowing of the ram’s horn. 2007 was Shemittah 5768.
  

Lev 25:12 ‘It is a Jubilee, it is set-apart to you. Eat from the field its crops. – The produce of the year of jubilee may be eaten, but it cannot be harvested or sold. As long as there are food available in the field for the ownerless beasts may we keep food at home for our own animals. But if there is no food left in the field, you must remove food from our homes and make it available to everyone.

From the spiritual point of view, on the year of Jubilee we must make sure that we send people who have reach spiritual maturity “Crop of the field” out into the world, that they may be food for the unsaved. These people are what we would call today Evangelist, to Evangelize the world. El Yahushua said in Matthew 28:19  “Yahushua name and talked with them. He said, "All authority in Heavens and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore, go and make people from all nations into talmidim, immersing them into the reality of the Father, the Son and the Ruach HaKodesh, 20  and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember! I will be with you always, yes, even until the end of the age." This was most certain a year of Jubilee that El Yahushua gave this Great Commission to His Disciples, for Yahushua had to fulfilled all Commandments.

Lev 25:13 ‘In the Year of this Jubilee let each one of you return to his ancestral heritage. – This ancient position is the whole purpose of creation, to produce or create perfect sons for the Kingdom. The Restoration of all things. The Kingdom of Heavens need to be restore to the original Gory it had before the rebellion of Lucifer.

Verse 14 – 55 describes a sequence of random command. But the progression of these commandments, the Torah is implying that if anyone allows greed to keep him from observing the Shemittah and Jubilee prohibitions, he will be force to forfeit his inheritance. This was the cause of Lucifer down fall. If after six years of spiritual development, or the six years of trying to create a perfect man, and these tendencies are still with us, then we have a problem.

Lev 25:14 ‘And when you sell whatever to your neighbour or buy from the hand of your neighbour, do not exploit one another. – At this stage of our spiritual development, we should not have the tendencies to cheat anyone of your neighbor in business.

This command is an extension of the general principle that one should seek to help his brethren in any way possible. The highest form of Charity is to enable someone to make a living in a honorable way, without being require to seek charity, so that the best way to help a needy Hebrew is to do business with him.

Lev 25:15 ‘According to the number of years after the Jubilee you buy from your neighbour, and according to the number of years of crops he sells to you. – This verse speaks of two different things here. The price we pay our neighbor for his service to us. And the other is the price one pay for the use of the time they will have access to the land.

El Yahushua gave a very remarkable illustration of this command in Matthew chapter 20 when He paid the workers the same wages regardless of when they start working.

However according to the number of years the field will revert to their original owners in the jubilee year, the buyer of the field has actually purchased the number of crops it will produce until the jubilee.

Consequently, if the buyer will remain in possession permanently, he is in violation of the previous verse’s admonition not to defraud.

Lev 25:16 ‘According to the greater number of years you increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you diminish its price, because he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops. – This verse stipulates the righteous method used to justify, the calculation of the rental agreement.

Lev 25:17 ‘And do not oppress one another, but you shall fear your Elohim. For I am יהוה your Elohim. – In verse 4 we see a similar expression refers to business conduct with each other. In this verse however, we see it means not to hurt each other with words.

It is forbidden to remind other believers of their earlier sins of an embarrassing aspects of their past, or to give advice that one knows to be bad. Lest one think that he can easily do so and no one will know that his intentions were malicious, the verse conclude, that we must fear יהוה for יהוה knows what is truly in a man’s heart.

It is worst to hurt someone personally than financially, because money can be replace but shame and a person reputation cannot be replace, who ever does these things will not emerge from Gehinnom.

Lev 25:18 ‘And you shall do My laws and guard My right-rulings, and shall do them. And you shall dwell in the land in safety, - This verse teaches the importance of keeping יהוה decrees, My Ordinances. The Torah exhorts those who make it into the land, who reach maturity, to remember to keep, to observe the above laws of Shemittah and Yovel.

By observing the agricultural laws are referred to as decrees that is not predicated upon human logic, and the laws of fraud and return of slaves and ancestral land are ordinances that can be understood easily.

The right to dwell securely on the land is link to the obedience of this command. Failure to observe the laws of Shemitteh and Yovel was a cause for the exile of the Children of Yisrael from the land years later. If we do not learn to practice here on earth, we will not know how to practice it when we get to Heavens. This will determine how long we will dwell safely in Heavens.

Lev 25:19 ‘and the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat to satisfaction, and shall dwell there in safety. – This is a repetition of the identical phrase in the preceding verse. Above, the phrase assured Yisrael that in return for observing the Shemittah, they would not be exiled. Now, יהוה offers assurance that those who let their land rest will not suffer famine and be force to travel abroad to purchase food.

Lev 25:20 ‘And since you might say, “What do we eat in the seventh year, since we do not sow nor gather in our crops?” – The previous verse promises that whatever food you have will suffice, thanks to יהוה blessings; but if you lack the faith to rely on this, and ask how, only one crop can be enough for such a long time, יהוה promise to ordain His Blessings for us to such an extent that the prosperity will be plain enough to set your mind at ease.

In this verse the Torah says if your brother become poor  It used the word brother to remind us that all belivers are brothers. Mat12:48  But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? Mar3:33  And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? Mat 12:49  And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! Mat 12:50  For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Lev 25:21 ‘Therefore I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth the crop for three years. – The crop of the sixth year will provide enough for three years. This would be that the crop that was harvested on the sixth year, would last all the way trough the seventh year, and into the end of the eight year when the new crop will be ready to be harvest.

Lev 25:22 ‘And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat of the old crop until the ninth year. Eat of the old until its crop comes in. – The crop from the sixth year will also last into the ninth year.

Verse 23 – 34 describes the redemption for the land. As we have seen in the verses above a land can only be rented for the number of years to the jubilee year, when it must be revert back to the original owner.

This verses place the responsibility upon the relatives of an impoverish person who rented out the land in the first place, to redeem the land even before the seven years and return the to its original owner.

As long as the family member can raise the money to pay a fair value for the field, the purchase is required to accept the monetary compensation for the years to Jubilee.

Lev 25:23 ‘And the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me. – The Land of Yisrael that was given to the various Tribe, must never change ownership, as it will be in the world to come. Our inheritance must never change hands. Today when a family gets divorce, half to the wife, this must not be so in the Kingdom. The Land must never leave the family it was allotted to in the first place.

Lev 25:24 ‘And provide for a redemption for the land, in all the land of your possession. – There must always be a redeemer for the land, a person who will be the spokesman so to speak, even if the land is rented out to someone else, up until the seven years.

Lev 25:25 ‘When your brother becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and his redeemer, a close relative comes to redeem it, then he shall redeem what his brother sold. – For whatever reason, the owner of the land has to rent out his land, a close relative, a member of his own family or clan, may redeem the land for him.

Lev 25:26 ‘And when the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, - If the man has no one to redeem it, when he does have enough money to do so he may do it.

Lev 25:27 then let him count the years since its sale, and return the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he shall return to his possession. -  He must then count the years since the rental agreement and subtract the difference. If he rented the land before with ten crops remaining before the jubilee, then each crop is worth one-tenth of the purchase price.

Lev 25:28 ‘And if his hand has not found enough to give back to him, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee. And it shall be released in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his possession. – If however he cannot afford to raise the cash to redeem the land, he must wait until the ends of the sixth year, when the land will be automatically revert to him.

It is the same way in the Kingdom of Heavens, El Yahushua do not have the required personnel to redeem His kingdom from Lucifer, for the people who are supposed to be coming to maturity, have not being doing so. Therefore, Lucifer can remain on the land for a long time. Adam sold the land to Lucifer when he sinned. El Yahushua is our Kinsman Redeemer, however He needs faithful servants to rule and reign in that Kingdom.

The job of Lucifer is to keep the believers from coming to maturity, by getting them to follow a path that does not led to maturity. Thus the invention of Christianity.

Lev 25:29 ‘And when a man sells a house in a walled city, then his right of redemption shall be at the end of the year after it is sold. His right of redemption lasts a year. – The law for the redemption of a house in a walled city is to be within one year of the sale of the property. This house can be redeem at anytime, but not after one year.

The essence behind this law is that the house is vital for the safety of the city, when a new occupancy moves in and become a part of the defense of that city; it is never wise to continuously replacing him. Therefore for the good of the defense of the city, the integrity of the defense must be maintained.

Lev 25:30 ‘But if it is not redeemed within a complete year, then the house in the walled city shall be established beyond reclaim to the buyer of it, throughout his generations. It is not released in the Jubilee. – Not even the Year of Jubilee can over turn this judgment.

Lev 25:31 ‘The houses of villages, however, which have no wall around them are reckoned as the field of the country. The right of redemption belongs to it, and they are released in the Jubilee. -  Any house in an undefended part of the land must be release in the year of Jubilee.

Verses 32 – 34 speak of the cities of the Levites. Since the Levites did not receive provinces, as the other tribes. Instead, they were given forth-eight towns scattered around the country, each of which was surrounded by a ring of open land, two Thousand cubits around the city.

The following laws apply to rental of both house and land in the cities of the Levites, whether the particular property was owned by a Levites or another Levite had inherited it.

Lev 25:32 ‘As for the cities of the Lĕwites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Lĕwites have a right of redemption forever. – The Levites and the Priesthood has the eternal right to redeem their land anytime. Whether in a field or a walled city. In the time of the Temple, the Levites had no possessions. They were connected to Yahweh, almost as though they were living solely in the 95% spiritual realm.

Today, we have to live in the 5% illusionary world of our limited physical perception, but we can still connect to the 95%, by beliveng in Messiyah Yahushua and the Holy Spirit.

It is up to each of us, in the Covenant mady by Yahushua and the Infilling of the Holy Spirit to be both a kohen and a Levite so that we can connect to the Light ourselves, yet still be in balance with the physical world.

Now, in this physical world, they eat from the fruit of the Tree of Life. Now, who is that? It is the area that is to be found by the poor? That is the secret of Malchut, which is called poor, since she contains nothing of her own, except what the Voice of Yahweh provides her. Malchut is called the fruit of the tree that is within the Garden of Eden.

Lev 25:33 ‘And that which is redeemed from the Lĕwites, both the sale of a house and the city of his possession shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Lĕwites are their possession in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl. – Since the Levites only heritage in the Land is their cities and the surrounding areas, they cannot be deprive permanently of any part of their property.

Lev 25:34 ‘But the field of the open land of their cities is not sold, for it is their everlasting possession. – The lands surrounding their cities cannot be sold or even rented out to anyone else.

Verse 35 – 38 discusses what should happen when a brother become impoverished. The highest form of charity is to lend a helping hand to prevent a person from becoming poor. This includes offering him a job, or a loan, investing in his business, or any other form of assistance that will avoid poverty. The basis for this principle is the commandment that we should strengthen each other.

Lev 25:35 ‘And when your brother becomes poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you shall build him up, that he may live with you, if he is a proselyte or a citizen. -  This verse teaches that if your brother becomes impoverished and you know about it, the verse stresses twice that you must regard his plight as if it was you. This verse expressions brings home the importance of everyone should feel a responsibility to help him.

We should not wait until he becomes poor. When a beast of burden load begins to slip it take only one man to help, but when the animal falls under the burden not even five men cannot lift it back to its feet. The term proselyte or citizen, means any one in the Kingdom, this does not include the unsaved person.

Lev 25:36 ‘Take no interest from him, or profit, but you shall fear your Elohim, and your brother shall live with you. – The terms interest or profit, these two terms are synonymous. In effect, therefore, the prohibition against interest is mentioned twice, so that those who charge it are in violation of this command.

We learn in this verse that we should never take advantage of someone in distress. We do not have to help everyone, but we should never use anyones misfortune against them. As for ourselves, we are all wanting in some area of our lives, but if we speak enviously of what other have, we will end up with even less.

Lev 25:37 ‘Do not lend him your silver on interest, and do not lend him your food for profit. – It is not permitted for us to lend money to our brother for gain. It must be done in love.

Lev 25:38 ‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to give you the land of Kenaʽan, to be your Elohim. – Just as in Egypt EL YAHWEH differentiated between the first born and those of were not firstborn, so, too, He will know if someone has illegally accepted interest, no matter how he tries to launder the transaction. Alternatively, EL YAHWEH liberated us from Egypt so that we would accept all of His commandment, even the difficult ones, such as the prohibition against charging interest.

Verse 39 – 43 describes a Hebrew slave, even Though there is no such thing. Slaver in this sense means that a Hebrew person comes under the influence of another. In the Spiritual sense, we should never be a slave to none other than El Yahushua. But through sin, believer sometime come under the influence of another temporary. They do not lose their status in the religious or civil community.

In this status, their movement is limited for a specific period of time; they are not free to resign their position. Their mast must treat them with such delicacy and consideration. Anyone who sell himself as a slave to a Hebrew person, purchase himself a righteous Master.

Lev 25:39 ‘And when your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, do not make him serve as a slave. – From a spiritual point of view if one of our brother become a slave to substance abuse, we should not look upon him with distain. This Hebrew person should not be worked as a slave labor. He should not be assign to do the sort of degrading tasks that would be given only to a slave, such as having him bring his master food, but rather he should be invited to sit at your table with your family for dinner.

The disposition of slaves is discussed in this verse, but we must never even contemplate having ownership of other people. If someone is working for us, we must not feel like his or her master.

We are all independent yet interdependent. There can never be a time when people are allowed to own one another, nor should parents feel a sense of ownership toward their children.

Lev 25:40 ‘But as a hired servant, as a settler he is with you, and serves you until the Year of Jubilee. – We should treat him as a friend; he may even dwell with you until the time when he is release from his substance abuse. Notice in the previous chapter when a person was found with any contamination, they were secluded for seven days, then examine. Here we see the year of release is every seven years.

Lev 25:41 ‘And then he shall leave you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own clan, even return to the possession of his fathers. – Under no circumstances do the Hebrew children of a Hebrew slave to a Hebrew master ever belong to the Master; even those who were born to the slave when he was in servitude. This verse teaches us that during one’s years of slavery, his master is responsible for the up keep of the slave’s family. It is this reliance upon the master that he and his children leave when the slave years end.

Lev 25:42 ‘For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim, they are not sold as slaves. – The Hebrew people are already servant of EL YAHWEH they cannot be sold and treated as common slave. They cannot play the harlot to other masters. They must be treated with dignity, another Hebrew person cannot pray for the destruction of another brother.

Lev 25:43 ‘Do not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your Elohim. – It is incumbent on every Hebrew person to remember not to rule over another person with harshness. The Spirit of gentleness should be with us, and to be shown even to those who are less fortunate than us.

Verse 44 – 46 speak of the Non Hebrew slaves. Having said that an owner’s right over his Hebrew slave are limited, the Torah states that one may purchase slaves from among the surrounding nations. Such slaves become the property of their owners, indefinitely.

Lev 25:44 ‘And your male and female slaves whom you have from the nations that are around you, from them you buy male and female slaves, -  When Torah says to buy a slave, it is not like slavery in the southern USA in the 17 century. Torah style slaver is that the person has the same right as a famely member.

Lev 25:45 and also from the sons of the strangers sojourning among you, from them you buy, and from their clans who are with you, which they shall bring forth in your land, and they shall be your property.  -  There is also another kind of slave. This type does not accept the doctrine of Torah. We should pay them a fair waves, yet they are not treated the same as a family member.

Lev 25:46 ‘And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession, they are your slaves for all time. But over your brothers, the children of Yisra’ĕl, you do not rule with harshness, one over another. - They are not release in tha Sabbatical year, they are slaves forever.

Verse 47 – 55 describe how a Hebrew person is own by a non-Hebrew. The ultimate degradation is for a Hebrew to be sold as a slave to a non-Jewish resident. In that rather unpleasant scenario, the Torah place a responsibility upon his kinsman to redeem him, but they must do so without depriving the owner of his legitimate property rite.

Lev 25:47 ‘Now when a sojourner or a settler with you becomes rich, and your brother with him becomes poor, and sells himself to the settler or sojourner with you, or to a member of the sojourner’s clan, - A sojourner is stranger from another land who have come into the Land of Yisrael to embrace the Elohim of Yisrael. He has a right to be redeemed by another Hebrew brother. This is not so for a person who does not accept the Elohim of Yisrael.

Lev 25:48 after he has been sold, there is a right of redemption to him – one of his brothers may redeem him, - It is wrong for a Hebrew to ever sell himself to an unbeliever. It is also wrong for a believer to see his brother been sold and does nothing. It is incumbent on his brother to free his brother at the earliest possible moment.

If we see someone being treated as a slave, either physically or spiritually, we have a responsibility to intervene. Slavery is so wrong that we must not only avoid practicing it, we must also take action against it if we see it being practice.

Lev 25:49 or his uncle or his uncle’s son does redeem him, or anyone who is a close relative to him in his clan does redeem him, or if he is able, then he shall redeem himself. – His family should be the first to redeem him, however if the family is not available, then any Hebrew brother may do so.

What does this mean from a physical sense? If for example if I knew that a brother was in debt to a creditor, it is incumbent on me to pay off his debt, and allow him to pay me back interest free.

Lev 25:50 ‘And he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; as the days of a hired servant it is with him. – The same principle to reach maturity is the same principle to get out of debt.

Lev 25:51 ‘If there are yet many years, according to them he repays the price of his redemption, from the silver of his purchase. – The one who is been redeemed must pay the fair market value for the person who is been redeemed.

Lev 25:52 ‘And if few years are left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he repays him the price of his redemption. – If there are a few years left in the contract, ten percent per year must be paid for his redemption.

Lev 25:53 ‘He is with him as a yearly hired servant, and he does not rule with harshness over him before your eyes. – If the servant was hired as a yearly worker, and he was not treated with any cruelty and he is not redeem by anyone, he shall only be redeem in the Jubilee year. A Hebrew person is forbidden to stand by and tolerate the sight of their fellow Hebrew being subjugated harshly.

Lev 25:54 ‘And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children with him. –

Lev 25:55 ‘Because the children of Yisra’ĕl are servants to Me, they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim. I am יהוה your Elohim. – The whole purpose of Creation is for EL YAHWEH to create a perfect Bride for His Son. These brides to be are those who are part of the redeem community, therefore we are set apart from been subjugated to any other husband, except for El Yahushua. A Hebrew person, who falls under the servitude of another master, is tantamount to adultery. We are not required as a set apart bride to participate in such activity, or bondage.