Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parsha Behar-Behukotai

good evening today we are learning a double portion we are in our scroll how much on page 697. we start with parshad Behar on Mount Sinai Moshe received not only the Ten Commandments but the entire Torah and an example of what he received besides the Ten Commandments is written in this expression the Torah says in chapter 25 verse 1 Hashem spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai same now if you want to know what did Hashem tell motion on harsinai besides Ten Commandments he said the following speak to the children of Israel and say to them when you come into the land that I give you the land shall observe a Shabbat rest for Hashem and this is a very interesting idea not only people have to observe Shabbat the land also has to observe Shabbat how does the land observe Shabbat verse 3 explains for six years you may sow your field and for six years you may prune thank you your Vineyard and you may gather its crop but in the seventh year shall be a complete rest for the land the Shabbat for Hashem your field you shall not sow with seeds and your Vineyard you shall not prune now unlike people that keep Shabbat which is one day a week the land keeps Shabbat one year out of seven year cycle and what are the laws for that year this year is called either chemita which means letting go releasing your control over the land or it's called which means the seventh year so the the Torah tells us some of the rules or of shemitah in verse 4. but the seventh year shall be a complete rest for the land a Shabbat for Hashem your field you shall not sow and your Vineyard you shall not prune so we cannot work the land we cannot plow we cannot plant we cannot even Harvest we cannot fertilize cannot um water the field and the Torah continues not only you cannot Harvest your regular Harvest verse 5 says they have to growth of your Harvest you shall not reap what is after growth after growth is what grows in the field by itself how do things grow by themselves in the sixth year when the farmer goes and harvests wheat and other grains some of the kernels and some of the stocks may accidentally fall on the ground and the following year they might Sprout and the Torah says anything that that grows on the land by itself which is in English called after growth in Hebrews called Sofia foreign now what do you do with grain vegetables fruits grapes that grow by themselves if the Torah says cannot Harvest and the answer is when the Torah says you cannot Harvest it means in a regular Commercial Way which means if you harvest in order to store for future or in order to sell that is forbidden on shemitah however if you harvest just a little bit for your family whatever you need for near future that is permitted and the rabbis introduced some additional um restrictions in order to remind people that it is shimita for example instead of using a a regular commercial um sickle or the instrument with which you cut stalks you have to use a smaller handheld sickle so we are allowed to harvest but not to store or not to sell we're not allowed to do business with produce of Chevy of shemitah and similarly if you you find Israeli produce even outside of Israel you have to make sure that all the laws of the land of Israel were kept for example if right now you find in a store Peppers or tomatoes or grapes or clementines that are grown in Israel they must have either and and that will tell you that turuma and ma said and all the other laws were kept or if you don't know where it came from you have to suspect that perhaps they did not follow the laws of the land and you have to learn how to separate truma and mass wrote yourself and therefore if you don't know how to do it it's better not to buy such produce if it doesn't have um this coming year which is there's that Hashem going to be shimita we have an additional concern we also have to make sure that this produce was not grown in Israel on a Jewish farm because if it was grown in the land of Israel on a Jewish farm we are not allowed to buy it as if it we learn now that you're not allowed to do business with produce of the seventh year and therefore this coming year when you need to buy a trog and a throg is considered a fruit love Arava and Hadas is not a problem because they're not fruits they're just branches but when you buy a trog you have to check if it's grown in Italy in Arizona in Spain in Morocco in Yemen fine you can buy it but if it's grown in Israel then you cannot buy it what they do then is they sell you Aloo love and uh at a more expensive price and they give you a trog as a gift this way you create a loophole that you're not actually paying you're not buying their truck you're getting it for free you're still paying them full price but it goes for the love now we continue in the verse six it tells you what can we do with fruits that are grown uh in the seventh year the Shabbat produce of the land shall be yours to eat for you for your slave and for your maidservant and for your laborer and for your resident who dwells with you and for your animal and for the wild um animals of the land share all this crap be to eat which means the fruit of the seventh year is permitted we can eat it the only prohibition is to do business with it and therefore harvesting it in a commercial way is also forbidden so anything that grows by itself in the land we can pick and we can eat but it says you have to share it also with other people even with non-jews and you have to keep the Gate of your field open throughout the seventh year so that even if wild animals come in they can so what is the idea of shemitah the idea is that Hashem wants to teach us that we are not Masters of the land the Earth does not belong to us our houses our Fields don't belong to us we are as the Torah says you are just temporary residents by me Hashem says I am allowing you to live on my land and I'm allowing you to pretend that the land is yours but really the land is mine Hashem says so for six years as it says in verse 3 for six years you may plant you may prune and do whatever you want pretend that it's yours and you can lock the gate and not let anyone come in and you can Harvest and you can sell and make profit but don't forget that the land is mine and therefore when the seventh year comes release your grip on the land means let go unlock your gates to your field not your house but your field has to be open and anyone including poor Jews non-jews and even wild animals can enter your land and eat as much as they want now the same rule applies to your guests anyone who enters Your Land may do so and they may pick any fruit they want but only enough for them and their family to eat in the near future they're also not allowed to grab in order to sell that would make the fruit forbidden foreign again the idea is that we have to remember we are here on Earth temporarily we are given limited time and we're given limited power when Hashem created Adam the first man he told him I'm giving you the entire land to serve the land to work the land and to guard it so a human being is in charge of the entire Earth but he's not the owner yes we're managers we can do whatever we see fit for our needs but at the same time we have to protect the Earth it says work the land but at the same time protect it when the seventh here reminds us that yes we have the right to work the land but we're not the owners and to show that for one year out of seven we don't work the land similarly on Shabbat six days a week we work seventh we cannot work why to show that even our bodies don't belong to us we can't do anything we want with our bodies we have to re-rest cannot continue working your body and our businesses don't belong to us seventh year our main boss tells us don't come to work we are gently reminded that we are guests in hashem's world now the seven year cycle is repeated again and again and again seven times and that is 7 times 7 gives you 49 years and then in the 50th year you have the Jubilee here the yovel it's called your Veil is the 50th calendar year which comes after full seven cycles of seven years and verse 8 says you shall count for yourself seven cycles of sabbatical years seven years seven times and then verse 9 tells us a special mitzvah you shall sound a broken blast over the shofar in the seventh month or the 10th of the month on the day of atonement on Yom Kippur in the bay din they blow so far to announce that time came for all slaves to go free and all ancestral land to go back to its original owners according to uh total law any land that the Jewish people received when they entered together with Yoshua cannot be sold permanently it can only be leased for up to 50 years in the 50th year it goes back to the family that received it from Yeshua so the bedin blows the shofar on Yom Kippur to Proclaim as it says you shall sanctify the 50th year and Proclaim Freedom throughout the land for all its inhabitants the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia is not the first one that proclaimed um Liberty freedom and these words are written on the Liberty Bell you shall Proclaim Freedom throughout the land for all its inhabitants a verse taken directly from the Torah again the land goes back to its owners and all slaves all Jewish slaves become free and they must go back to their original family they cannot stay as slaves even if they want to it shall be the Jubilee here for you you shall return each man to his ancestral heritage the land goes back and you shall return each man to his family all the Jewish slaves go back to their families now Jubilee here the jovel also comes with its laws very similar to shemitab just like shmita we cannot work the land so too yovel the 50th year we cannot work the land the Torah says in verse 11 on page it shall be a jubilee year for you this 50th year you shall not sow you shall not Harvest its after growth and you shall not pick what was set aside of it for yourself for it is a jubilee year it shall be holy for you from the field you may eat its crab you can pick and eat but not to sell and not to store now verse 14 we speak about the sale of ancestral land as I mentioned an ancestral land cannot be sold forever but it can be least for up to 50 years so the Torah says when you make a sale to your fellow or make a purchase from the hand of your fellow do not aggrieve one another this teaches us that in business transactions in all financial matters we're not allowed to hurt each other cannot cheat cannot overcharge cannot steal cannot withhold wages we learn from this passive but this this verse tells us specifically about sale of land when you sell land since it's not a forever sale you cannot charge an arm and a leg you have to charge according to how many years you are leasing it for verse 15 says according to the number of years after the Jubilee year shall you buy from your fellow according to the number of crop years shall he sell to you which means if you're buying it right after the Jubilee year then you know that you will have 49 years to use the land so you pay for it 49 times the price for one year however if he is buying it already in 25th Year of Jubilee cycle so he'll only have half of the time to use the land so the price has to be half as verse 16 says according to the greater number of years shall you increase its price and according to the Lesser number of years shall you decrease its price now verse 17 tells us about another mitzvah each of you shall not aggrieve his fellow and you shall fear your God that means that we are not allowed to hurt each other not only financially but even verbally this is called we have two prohibitions of hurting Jews one is called onat Mamon hurting another Jew financially that's a total prohibition and or not hurting another Jew with words putting someone down calling people names cursing at people wishing them bad all these are forbidden according to Torah which means if a person got forbid calls another Jew a name and nickname says something bad about him and hurts him it is equivalent to this Jew eating a delicious slice of pork a piece of pig same prohibition same negative commandment saying a negative word to another Jew or putting a piece of pig in one's mouth therefore we have to be very careful not to put each other down not call each other names and not to say la shonara and sometimes especially we want to do it for a good reason it seems to us say oh I need to let people know that this hashgraph is not reliable that through this restaurant is not good and we say oh I don't know if this restaurant is reliable I wouldn't trust it it would be better to eat in that restaurant than to say la Shona raiba the restaurant because when you say la shonara you get a negative commandment for sure and besides that you heard someone's livelihood there's so much punishment that can occur uh accrue to a person because of these words as opposed to the hashgaha you don't know go check it out maybe it is good maybe it's not the best but it's still kosher so even if a person would eat it maybe he would transgress there have been a command but you are going and transgressing the Torah commandment trying to warn people that they shouldn't transgress arabini Commander that's not smart a person should not transgress even a minor rabbinian command commandment when he wants to prevent others from doing a sin a person can only rebuke others or stop others from doing the sin if he will not transgress not the Torah law and not even a rabbinic law otherwise a person has to take care of himself first can't point at others and tell them what you're doing is wrong if at that moment you're doing something wrong as the Torah says first beautify yourself before beautifying others the Torah is speaking the talmud is speaking in a positive way first make yourself beautiful and then make others beautiful so there is learned from verse 17 Page 699. now the Torah promises us in verse 18. you shall perform my decrees and observe my ordinances and perform them then you shall dwell securely on the land this is a very important promise repeated a few times in the Torah Hashem says if you want to have peace in the land of Israel is only one way not to buy more fighter jets from the United States not to install Patriot missiles or Iron Dome not to put security cameras on every street corner in Jerusalem that's not how you're gonna get peace the way you get peace and dwell securely on the land is when you shall perform my decrees and observe my ordinances and perform them the reason why Hashem does not allow us to dwell in peace on our land our homeland is because Hashem doesn't want us to be comfortable while doing sins he wants us to be reminded what you're doing is wrong please wake up change your ways and therefore only when we are perfect in our land then we will have complete peace so if you want the enemies of Israel to make peace with the Jews we have to educate the Jews about God and educate about mitzvot Torah learning respecting one another only then automatically all the Arabs and Christians and everyone in the entire world will come and respect us and make peace with us now we turn to page 701 verse 20 . presents a very important question if you will say what will we eat in the seventh year you just told us not to work the entire year even Shabbat is difficult for us one day a week you're telling us to not work the entire year how's that possible so Hashem answers behold verse 21 I will ordain my blessing for you in the sixth year and it will yield a crop sufficient for the three-year period Hashem says don't worry even though you will not work the entire year but previous year number six will produce a bumper crop an abundant crop that will be enough for year six year seven and half of year eight until New produce is harvested now I'll commentate this point out that what would be if Jewish people didn't ask the question was Hashem waiting for the Jews to ask the question and only then he'll promise them that the land will produce a lot what if they never ask the question so they say if the Jewish people never asked the question then the blessing will be even greater then you will not need a bigger crop to feed you rather the same crop that you harvest in the sixth year will last you for three years how's that possible because there are two ways of being satisfied either increasing your intake of food or increasing the nutritional value of food so Hashem says if you don't ask me questions I will make the fruit and grain of the sixth year so nutritious that you will only need to eat a quarter or a third of your usual amount and you will be satisfied you will eat a few bites and it will be enough and so that produce that you harvest in the sixth year will last you for three years but if you doubt and you don't believe and you say how I harvested the same amount how is it possible it's going to last for three years then you will force me to show you an open miracle which is of a lesser degree than a hidden miracle and this open Miracle will be an abundant crop I planted the same seeds and miraculously produce three times more green than usual but then you will have to take care of it and you'll have to harvest so much and you'll have to transport it and thresh it and winnow it and store it and then grind it Mill it and cook it and so much labor it would have been much easier if the Jewish people trusted God and said whatever you give us we will be calm and confident that it will be enough and then with a little bit you will be satisfied a special blessing so that's the lesson we have to learn to trust Hashem and then everything will go well if you are worried then you'll have to work more as we learned about bitahon that when a person is confident that Hashem will provide him he needs to work less but when the person is worried what's going to be where will money come from Hashem says don't worry I'll give you a job and you'll have to go work full time in order to keep yourself calm which means the more worried you are the more opportunities for work you will get and the more hours you will have to work and you might say oh about Hashem I was worried and Hashem sent me a job but in reality if you would worry less Hashem would send you less jobs but then you would need less money you would you would have less expense less accidents less disease and you would be satisfied happy with less and you would have more time for living a life now verse 23 the Redemption of land we said that the land cannot be sold forever as it says in verse 23 the land shall not be sold in perpetuity for Neverland is mine for you are sojourners and residents with me and therefore when you sell a land it's just a lease for up to 49 years but the original owner of the land has the right to redeem it before yovel before the 50th year he has to allow the buyer to stay in the land and benefit from the land for up to three crops and then he has the right to read to redeem the land he gives uh back the money the difference in the original price and the the number of years that already passed and the buyer must give back the land to the original owner if the original owner wants to buy it back so the Torah says you shall provide Redemption for the land either the owner himself or if your brother becomes impoverished and sells part of his ancestral heritage his Redeemer who is closest to him shall come and redeem his brother's sale so if a person is poor then someone else a relative can help him to redeem it but what if he doesn't have any Rich uncles so then the Torah says if the man will not have a redeemer in verse 28 and his means are not sufficient sufficient to repay then his sales shall remain in the possession of the purchaser until the Jubilee year in the Jubilee year the yovel it shall leave and return to his ancestral heritage so there are three ways to get back your land either you bite back yourself after the third year or one of your relatives helps you out and and gives you a loan or gift and buys it back for you or you receive it in the 50th year now verse 29 tells us special law about houses in Walled cities usually world cities were on the border and On the Border we need population that that permanently lives there so that they can protect the city we don't want to use world uh cities as vacation homes or as business and therefore if a man shall sell a residence house in a walled City its Redemption can take place until the end of the year of its sale unlike a field in a regular uh rest of the country which can only be redeemed after three years and it can be redeemed any time until jovel a city in a world um a house in the world city is different it's almost the opposite you can only redeem such a house within the first 12 months after that you lose that house forever which means you sell it forever why because we don't want the I read the buyer to be concerned Maybe the owner is going to come and buy it and buy it back and therefore the buyer will not protect the house and therefore he will not protect the city and then the city on the border will be vulnerable to attacks therefore we say to the seller you sell the house and if you want to buy it back you have 12 months to buy back after that that's it it Remains the permanent possession of the buyer now we turn to page 703 when we learned about the levite cities as for the cities of the Levites the Levites shall have an eternal right of redemption these rules don't apply to them because these cities are designated specifically for the living and they can sell a house but they can redeem it anytime they want even though the levite city is world but the rule of the world cities doesn't apply to it now we go to page 35 and we have here rules about helping your fellow Jew to save him from poverty if your brother becomes impoverished and his means falter you shall strengthen him which means even before he falls down financially he just falters he's in a difficult situation quickly go and support him help him out because as I would say just say it's much easier to help a donkey to stand on its four feet when it's difficult by supporting it or lifting up some of its load it's much easier than to allow the donkey to fall on the ground and then even 10 men cannot raise the donkey with his loads so we have to help our fellow Jews as soon as they feel difficulty don't wait until they are um in foreclosure when they have lost their business and therefore verse 36 continues do not take from him interest when you give a loan to a Jew you're not allowed to charge interest verse 37 continues do not give him your money for interest and do not give your food for increase not only we're not allowed to give monetary loans with interest we cannot even borrow food and return more for example if you go to a neighbor and say can I please borrow some eggs and they give you six eggs and then the next day you go to a store and you buy a dozen and you bring them back a whole dozen not allowed you have to return exactly the amount that you took you borrow sugar a cup of sugar and you're embarrassed to return a cup of sugar so you buy a whole five pound bag not allowed you have to return just the same amount that you borrowed well verse 39 gives us laws of a Jewish slave if your brother becomes impoverished with you and is sold to you there are two cases when a Jew can become a slave either he is poor cannot support himself so he sells himself into slavery slavery again means just a commitment to work for your for you for another man for six years does not mean um what happened on plantations in America where slaves were abused and killed and overworked a slave is just a committed worker a worker who signs a contract uh and uh is committed for working for six years now if someone is asking a question what if you borrow six eggs and then you return a whole dozen and you tell him oh here's uh uh six eggs that I borrowed and you keep the rest not allowed um because it looks like interest any increase that you give at the time of returning to the loan is not allowed unless this is uh something that people are not macpid they're not careful about which means you don't have to measure with a measuring cup exactly exactly or with a scale how many grams how many uh ounces did they give you they give you approximately a cup you can return approximately a cup even if you return a little bit more but nobody cares or for example if uh they give you large eggs and you just so happen to have extra large eggs it would be going out of your way and sometimes in the store large eggs are even more expensive than extra large eggs because they're not standard so people don't care okay fine give him uh extra large eggs just don't mention or you gave me large eggs but as a thank you I'm giving you extra large then it's forbidden but if you don't mention and he doesn't care he just takes these eggs makes omelet with him doesn't even notice that's fine but don't do it on purpose don't say oh he gave me a large so I'm gonna give him extra large even if you don't mention it to him but that's your thought that's forbidden only if it's more convenient for you you're allowed to uh now another question if you borrow a cup of sugar people don't expect it back yes that's true and that's perfectly fine if somebody gives you uh an item and tells you oh you don't have to give it back fine you don't have to give it back next time they ask for something it's a of course a nice gesture you also lend them something bad don't tell them I'm lending it to you or I'm giving it to you because you gave me uh in the past because then you will have to be careful not to give them more than what they gave you because then it becomes like a loan I lend you a amount of food that is worth a certain um amount of money and you owe it to me and now you're returning it and if you return more that will be a problem so neighbors friends can give each other gifts that's not a problem and you can give a larger gift than than what they gave you as long as you don't mention that it is because you gave me okay now uh again there are two ways for a Jew to become a slave either to sell himself again we explain means to sign himself for a six-year contract to be committed to work for another Jew or if a Jew stole and he doesn't have money to pay back the stolen uh Goods the court sells him and they give the money from the sale to the victim and he works as long as it takes to pay back the money uh now the tortoise says if your brother is sold to you as a slave you shall not work him with slave labor and that means a Jewish slave you have to treat with respect you cannot give him menial tasks you cannot command him oh give me this tie my shoes wash my back give me a cup of coffee you have to treat them with respect give him an assignment give him what his duties are and don't order him don't command him and furthermore you can only give a Jewish slave a job that is on his level that means if he has a profession you can only give him a job that fits within his profession that he shouldn't be embarrassed on until now I was a doctor and now I have to sweep the floor that hurts as a job that's permitted if somebody comes to you and says can I need a job can you give me a job and you say oh I have this job sweeping with the floor do you mind doing it and he says I don't mind so I'll pay you this amount of money fine that's a permit it but because he has a status of a slave he is more sensitive he's more vulnerable and therefore you're not allowed to give him a job that is beneath him you as a free man can do anything even changing diapers even washing floors and dishes nothing is beneath a Jewish man but if you are a slave then you can say oh this is beneath me now therefore men have to be very careful if a man in his family says oh this is not a man's job I don't change diapers I don't wash dishes that means you're putting yourself on the level of a Slave and therefore a Jewish husband is able to do everything the only thing that a Jewish husband cannot do is giving birth to Children otherwise a Jewish man is perfect he can do anything you want now verse 40 explains what a status of a slave of a Jewish slave is like our laborer or a resident shall he be with you until the Jubilee year shall he work with you which means either until the sixth year or if he wants to stay longer he is allowed to stay longer you just have to pierce his ear and he stays until the 50th year now when page 705 what about the non-jewish slave verse 44 your slave or your mid-servant whom you may own from the Gentiles who surround you from among them you may purchase a slave or mate servant and continues they shall remain yours as an ancestral heritage whereas a Jewish slave can only work for six years or if he wants until Jubilee here a non-jewish slave is stays a Slave forever and even if the original owner dies the slave continues serving the children and grandchildren now verse 47 gives us a unique case where a Jew couldn't could not find a buyer among Jews to to sell himself into slavery so he went and he sold himself as a slave of a non-jew unfortunately it says if your brother becomes impoverished and he is Sultan alien who resides with you verse 48 after he has been sold he shall have a Redemption there are three ways for a Jewish slave of a non-jew to be redeemed either one of his brothers shall redeem him or if his own means becomes sufficient whether someone gives him a gift or he finds money or he discovers treasure or receive inheritance he can redeem himself or if he cannot redeem himself and no one in the vicinity can pay the price so he waits until the Jubilee here and he goes free of course this applies only to non-jews who follow our laws if you have a case where non-jew does not respect Jewish laws that's not going to help and then we have to be willing to pay um a ransom to redeem this Jew that you should become free again this is called pigeon ransoming captives okay now we turn to page 707 verse 54 if he has not been redeemed by this means he shall go out in a jubilee year he and his children with him and now the Torah tells us that the Jewish people are not supposed to be slaves Jewish people are supposed to be free in order to serve Hashem for the Jewish for the children of Israel are servants to me they are my servants whom I have taken out of the land of Egypt I'm Hashem yoga and that is why a Jew is not supposed to sign a contract where he commits himself to work for the employer or the company for a certain amount of years without ability to quit anytime he wants in fact the says that a Jewish worker can leave his job any time he wants any day and even any hour of the day without prior notice of course it's it's uh if he can he must give a plentiful notice to the employer to help him to find another worker but if something happened that he needs to leave the job he does not need to feel bad he can just pack his bags and tell his employer that's it I'm leaving right now and he's allowed to leave because we are Servants of Hashem we're not Servants of any other human being now chapter 26 you shall not make Idols for yourself and you shall not erect a statue or a pillar and do not bow down on a stone we can only bow down on Stone floor in betamic dash outside of betamic Dash we must Place something on the ground first and only then we are allowed to bow down that's why on Yom Kippur in the synagogue we put paper towels or carpet something between us and the floor or the ground and only then we're allowed to bow down and verse 2 finishes the Parsha my Shabbat shall You observe and my same tradition you Revere I am Hashem uh but don't leave yet because we have the second Torah portion and that is and we're going to go quickly through it because it has two main themes one is the blessings that the Jewish person person will receive for following the Torah and one is the curses all the bad things Shalom that will happen to a person who does not keep the Torah so first come the blessings if you will follow my decrease and observe my Commandments and perform them then I will provide your Reigns in their time and the land will give its produce and the tree will give its fruit and you will eat bread to say shitty and you will dwell securely in the land so again we will if we keep the Torah Hashem promises we will have rain produce fruit we will have satisfaction we will have security and peace and then the Torah continues with blessings I will provide peace in the land and you will lie down and with none to frighten you I will cause wild beasts to withdraw from the land and a sword will not pass through your land you will pursue your enemies and they will form fall before you no fear no wild beasts no Wars and Victory I will turn my attention to you and I will make you fruitful and increase you and I will establish my Covenant with you we will have Divine attention we will have a lot of children we will have an increase in population in the land of Israel and our covenant with Hashem will be strengthened you will eat very old grain which means there will be so much grain that we will continue saving and every year we save more and more and more until our storehouses are full and you'll have to remove the oil to make way for new I will place my Sanctuary among you betamic dash will be built only when the Jewish people keep the Torah all these multiple blessings are gonna come to all clubs Hashem all of us should start keeping Quran be close to Hashem now we're on page 711. and my spirit will not reject you I will walk among you I will be God unto you and you will be people unto me I am Hashem you God who took you out of the land of Egypt from being their slaves I broke the staves of your yoke and I led you upright beautiful blessings for those that keep the Torah however now the Torah says but if you will not listen to me and you will not perform all these Commandments and you will consider my decrease loathsome and if you're being Rejects My ordinances so as not to perform all my Commandments so as to annul my Covenant then I will do the same to you shalom and Hashem lists in the Torah multiple series of punishments first one said If a person doesn't repent another heavier set as it says uh if despite this I mean Verse 18 you do not listen to me then I shall punish you further and then in verse 21 the third series if you behave casually with me and you refuse to listen to me then I shall lay a further blow upon you shalom and then the fourth series if despite these you will not be chastised towards me and you will behave casually with me then I too will behave toward you with casualness and then the fifth Series in verse 27 if despite this you will not heed me and you behave toward me with casualness I will behave toward you with the fury of casualness shalom and so on and so on seven times and then in in page 715 verse 34. before that it says that the Jewish people will be exiled because of their sins then the land will be appeased for its sabbaticals during all the years of its desolation why because if Jewish people don't keep the seventh year then they will be exiled and the land will rest without the Jews there and then verse 36 tells us what will happen to the Jewish people while they are in the land of their enemies the survivors among you I will bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their foes will they will be scared verse 39 because of their iniquity your Remnant will disintegrate in the lands of your foes and because of the iniquities of their forefathers again [Music] if we Shalom don't listen to earlier messages to small gentle messages then Hashem will be forced to increase the intensity now verse 40 speaks about repentance then they will confess their sin and the sin of their forefathers and the treasury with which they betrayed me and also for having behaved toward me with casualness perhaps then their unfeeling heart will be humbled and then they will gain appeasement for their sin now we turn to page 717 I will remember my Covenant with yaakov and also my Covenant with it's hot and also my Covenant with avraham will I remember and I will remember the land verse 45. I will remember for them the Covenant of the ancients Those whom I have taken taken out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the Nations to be God unto them I am Hashem verse 46 these are the decrees the ordinances and the teachings that Hashem gave between himself and the children of Israel at Mount Sinai through motion we started today's Parsha parashat Bihar or that Hashem spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai not only the Ten Commandments but the entire Torah and now we finish with the same idea the entire Torah was given on Mount Sinai and Hashem expects us to keep the entire Torah and only then our covenant with Hashem will be permanent and we will dwell securely on the land now in we go to page 719 and here we learn about the gifts to the temple one kind of gift is when a person uh wants to donate his or another human being's value and depending on the age and the gender there is a set value in the Torah then in verse 9 we speak about donating animals a person can can sanctify an animal and the rule is that whatever offering you designate the animal to be you cannot change it and if later you want to change it whether for good or For Worse both animals become holy and you have to offer both of them in addition to transgressing the the sin of exchanging an offering on page 721 we speak about donation of real estate either houses or fields and how it is evaluated by Cohen and the person has to give that amount of money to the temple and in verse 22 we speak about donating a field that doesn't belong to you but rather you bought it or you leased it so there is a method of evaluating that field as well and in verse 26 we speak about the Mitzvah of the first born animal and on page 723 it says whether it is oxen of the flock it is hashems which means if a kosher animal has a firstborn baby boy you have to give it to kohen and kohen offers it in betamic dash and eats it verse 27 if a non-kosher animal specifically donkey only a donkey has a firstborn baby boy then you have to redeem it with a sheep you'll take a baby donkey you exchange it for a sheep you give the Sheep to kohen and you keep the baby donkey um then in verse 30 we speak about that means separating 10 percent and giving it to Levites and then separating 10 again and either bringing it to yerushalayim and eating it in Year One two um and uh and in the end uh year five four and five or if it's here three or six you give it to poor people and then in verse 32 we have a Mitzvah of giving a tenth of new newly born animals of that year any tithe tithe in English means 10 of cattle or of the flock any that passes under the staff the tenth one shall be holy to Hashem so you bring all the children all the babies animals that were born that year you pass them through a gate one by one you count them and when you get to the tenth one you say this one is holy to Hashem you mark it with paint and then all those animals every 10th animal you bring them to Jerusalem and again and with it concludes these are the Commandments that Hashem commanded Moshe to the children of Israel on Mount Sinai thank you for listening shabbat shalom um