The hidden challenge behind Shemitah | Rabbi Yosef Benyaminov #torah

This is paras. Parasim speaks about the mitzvah that we all probably know. It's means seventh year when nothing is allowed to be done in terms of agricultural work, no planting, no sewing, no no reaping the the the crops, right? You have to leave the landow. And it's like Shabbat. Sixth day of the way we work. Seven day we rest. Six years of of the of the of the our fields we work with them. and the seventh year we leave it. Now the Torah tells us that Hashem will give us three years ahead. He will give us blessings for six, seventh and eighth year if we keep the shmita properly. [music] But the problem is as we're now approaching Purim, our sages tell us because we didn't keep Shmita for 70 years, right? 60m and 10 yos which is every 50 years we had to go to Gal to Bavl to Madai to Persia and be there for 70 years right but the question that our commenters ask why what was so hard to keep smita if we blessed with crops three times as much in the sixth year ahead of the year by byita by one year six seven eight you have a lot of food you see the crops tripling what is so hard to keep And the answer might shock you. You see, one of the laws of Shmita is since you don't own the land, the land belong goes back to Hashem, you have to leave it open. In other words, if you have a fence around your field, you have to unlock it because [music] everybody has access. It's not your land. Anybody who was hungry, who wants to take food, they could go into the field because it's not your land. It's it's everyone's. It's Hashem's. But the problem was people were greedy. They kind of pretended that the locks broke and they secretly locked the doors at night because they wanted more for themselves. And see that's the nature of people. Sometimes people are not happy with what they have. They always want more more. Especially in this society where in America we're taught the way to live is to be in pursuit of happiness. It sounds like you always have to be pursuing running after something. But what did our sages tell us? real is whoever is happy with Islad is considered really a rich person. So instead of running to get more, we should understand that whatever we have is what Hashem wants us to have and not [music] try to uh be unhappy because we still didn't get something more that's out Here.