Who Really Owns the Land of Israel? with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] to the ibn abate midrash and we are in parshas bahar you can find this in vayikra leviticus chapter 25 verse 1. now we always talk about fundamental things we use the clear car as the basis of the discussion the outline of the discussion and he always talks about fundamental things and this is really chock-full of very fundamental ideas and we'll begin with trying to understand rashi but i want to mention to you guys follow the hebrew you all get a hebrew sheet okay if you're live in the if you're here in the bayt midrash if you're on our email list you'll get one otherwise you have to go to the website and there's a link down below all you have to do is find the parsha and the year and you'll find online these hebrew sheets without all the beautiful colors i'm sorry it just didn't work like that so here we go very interesting so god so moses speaks to jewish people it does mention at times where he's speaking to them at and we know that they spent a really long time in the desert at mount sinai but here how many verses do we have where it says god spoke to moses specifically at heart sinai not a whole lot so here rashi mentions right away our parts are going to be dealing with shemitah that's the sabbatical year and jubilee and many other topics but rashi brings a very interesting idea and that is he asks a question the question is like this what's the relevance right what relevance or what special relevance does the subject of shmita which is the releasing of the fields in the seventh year have to do with harsinai what in the world is the connection and to strengthen the question were not all the commandments meaning weren't all the commandments stated from harsinai this is our tradition that the torah was given over with the majority of the commandments if not all of them at to give unto moses at harsinai so he answers rashi says however this teaches us that just like shemitah and you'll see in the partial there's so many details he claims right with all these general principles and its finer details were all said at sinai so too the truth is all of them meaning the other 612 mitzvahs were also stated with all their general principles and all their details at mount sinai this is really the basis one of the fundamental principles regarding what we call torah shivapa the oral torah okay it's not only what's written but what was told over regarding the meaning the finer details of the entire book the revel that's what we call the revelation now we will find in the verse following actually it's it is the following verse and i'll just read it speak to the children of israel and say to them when you come into the land i give you the land shall observe a sabbath rest for hashem so what does it mean shabbat hashem that you're actually right causing the land to lie fallow and all the other details regarding what we do during shemitah it's for the sake of god now why is that so interesting rashi actually mentions what does it mean for the sake of god just as it says by the sabbath of creation in exodus chapter 20 verse 10 so too every sabbath day is considered holy holy to hashem us a holy sabbath day and what do we do we acclaim that god himself right we're celebrating the god himself rested on the seventh day and thus claiming that god is the supreme creator of all existence so too man must rest from working the land on the seventh year for what for the sake of god and we're going to talk about this not for the sake of the land raj this is quoting for ashi he's quoting it from an earlier source of course from the medrush and sita khameen the torah's gohani so that what not for the sake of the land so that it should gain fertility by laying fallow for a year because that's normally how the world works you can ask right farmer's almanac you can ask people who are farmers if you do crop rotation or if you lay follow the land for a year it will either reduce the depletion of the minerals or it will help somehow increase but you have to lay it fallow guess what we also do but not for the sake of the land for some reason it's for the sake of god and what does that mean how do you do it for the sake of god so let's now begin with the cleo car he brought rashi ma in shemitah sinai what exactly is the relevance of shemitah doing bar harsinai why do you have to teach me this so karov the shemoah it makes sense listen clarefully kisha moshe el harsinai when moses went up to sinai what day did he go up it was it was after seven weeks the 49th or the 50th day he went up on the 50th day after seven weeks shasabra israel t-shiva barum for those who are not aware we have the mitzvah of sverata omer we are counting from the day after we left egypt on the 16th of nisan until we're counting the 49th day seven weeks the night right before she was what happened on that day the fiftieth day nitka oz the mountain became holy the mountain was holy and what was forbidden to do one was not allowed to do malacha the truth is even three days before you couldn't approach it but on that day particularly you couldn't sew and you couldn't plow and why should nitna torah because on it on what on that day it's true it's also on that mountain but on that day the torah was given and what is it about time that is israel it was a time of drawing forth now what is yeovil yovel doesn't mean freedom but the word likro d'ruer verhofsi does so yodel is a flow it's actually kazarim now it also has an idea of like um time in other words a long time it's every 50th year so it's a long period of time it's drawn out just to get an idea why i say that yovel means to draw out whether it's over a long period of time or in this case we're talking about freedom real true liberty you want freedom wait till you hear this as it says if you go to exodus number five on the source sheets uh exodus chapter 19 verse 13 it says in hebrew um actually let me just read in english first right when they when the rams horn sounds a long drawn out blast they may ascend the mountain okay you can read in context what it's talking about okay this is right before the revelation at mount sinai and it says over there aloo bahar so it means to be drawn out a long blast so here we're talking about this uh drawing out a proclamation of freedom that took place on mount sinai to all of israel to the jewish people and then wait till you hear this the the words that were written on the tablets were not just written on the tablets they were engraved on the tablets so he uses these words the truth is the passage says look at number two on the source sheet it's exodus chapter 32 verse 16. now the tablets were god's work and the inscription was god's inscription engraved on the tablets says haroot there's a little bit of a play on word because haroon literally means engraved and yet same root same word means engrave now what's the difference between engraving and just writing on a whether it's a tablet a stone whatever it is you take ink on a quill and you add the ink to the parchment or to the paper however when you engrave you're actually scraping out i think it's called a bevel you're using some kind of instrument that's going to scrape out and what do you how do you know the letter the letter is only recognizable through the borders that you created right you scraped up you left borders so you have a clear letter the concept is through borders through borders is where you find your freedom through the law this goes against what christianity says that there is no law right you want to find freedom no it's through the law that you find your salvation you find your freedom and i'm going to now prove it to another point that i thought about and that is what is freedom use the ability to use your free will so through having borders is where you're able to exercise your free will right if it's everything is hefcker and you can do whatever you want you're really not exercising any free will you're just doing whatever the heck you want but once you have to make decisions and and and follow rules you you choose to follow the rules that is then you are using your free will why do you think they call it free will that's true freedom and that's just my own insight and i just wanted to share that with you um by the way just you should know in percyavote chapter six mishna two and number three on the source sheet mentions specifically this idea about the word engraved on the tablets don't read it as ha root but rather as liberty don't read it as engraved but understand it much deeper that through the inscription i.e as i explained as not adding ink to the table but creating borders you'll find true freedom and then he continues the ali they call through the voice or let's just say the loud sound of the chauffeur shamathan torah that it was through we were just close your eyes and imagine you saw thunder you heard lightning there was a blow blast of the shofar so through the blast of the chauffeur of the revelation of martin torah baotos that's when hashem told moses on harsinai as our verse describes god told moses about all the mitzvas but this one specifically as we will continue to describe the wondrous comparison to whatever the 49th let's say the 50th day represents the freedom it represents and the the the the shofar and eretz israel and specifically i'm going to say right now mount moriah where the temple will stand and at least then we'll stand did stand and we'll stand once again so the clear car wants to say what is this trying to tell us shabba misbah shiva ube that through the number that through the number 7 and through the number 49 ani noten hashem is going to transmit or to give or to place kedusha zoe this this wonderful liberty this wonderful freedom that he gave to us on mount sinai he's going to place on the coal areas israel the land of israel it's like being in the temple it's like being in the palace we say you're in the palace of hashem when you're in the holy land and not only that he says meaning the land of israel actually has a similarity and a relationship with mount sinai but i want to say the revelation specifically because really it's not that important anymore to us where mount sinai is and that's why the torah doesn't tell us where it is nobody knows where it is okay but it's the rebel it's the m we're called mama harsina it's the it's the actual standing at sinai where we had the revelation that we take with us every moment of our lives and for those who are interested in converting i've talked to many converts and they tell me i know my soul was there and i said yes with along with the jewish people but unfortunately they weren't born into a jewish family and their souls who want to come back to the ultimate intimate relationship with the kurdish baraku and their long-lost family that they sided with at that great rev revelation unbelievable now he mentions two statements of khazal regarding this idea that the holiness that took place at har sinai is resting on the land of israel he says there's a actually discussion the gemara mock locus and someone comes up one of the tenorium come up from babylon to earth's israel and he he has clarity so the idea is that the just the air the word of ira could mean air could mean environment but let's just say just being an air trail being in the environment breathing the holy air causes one to be wise and that's found in gamora baba basra and also there's a statement in in breishit rabbah that says aim torah at least that's the way i saw it but the clear car adds two more words there is no torah like the torah of the land of israel and of course how could you and like sinai is where the torah was given al khan therefore he says her mispartacion [Music] therefore it's roy it's fitting to place or to give also to this land the land of eretz israel this special holiness of mount sinai after the number 49 and of course the number seven as well and kedai lasso zikaron la mama harsinai the kriya draw of avara shofar and also in order to create a commemoration a memorable memorization a real like living memory of what took place at the revelation itself by what happened there there was a blowing of a shofar there was a proclamation of true freedom that took place and this is all in combination of in addition to leshar tan meem shiyeshle mitsuzu all the other reasons for this mitzvah which we will talk about now al-qaeda and the clear car ends the first paragraph by saying this is why it says behar sinai as a dover zone this is completely correct the karov the shemoah and i hope it should be easy to understand okay so we're actually moving on to verse two the shaft tahar it's shabbat hashem as i mentioned in that rash here already what does it mean shabbos to hashem by resting the land right causing the land to observe sabbath rest but it's to it's for the sake of god what does that mean let me actually um give you a little bit of a introduction to this paragraph he's going to mention the rambam who's the ma who's the rava mauree the the author of the maharana wukim and we do interpret the rambam a lot of times in a very rational way and it seems like the rash the rambam is rationalizing if i can use that word the mitzvah of shemitah keeping the land fallow for one year as in a natural way it helps replenish the um the minerals where it doesn't deplete the minerals too much and that's fair although he is not happy with that opinion actually he mentions many people argue with that uh then he brings the rav the ikeda yitzcak and um also the abar banel and their claim for the reason for this mitzvah is in order to remember that there's a creator somehow or another it relates back to the idea there was a creator and a crea not just a creator but who's someone who's constantly creating the world and he's not happy with that uh explanation either and he gives a reason why he's not happy okay and then he has his own shot now i want you to know in the source sheet i do mention that there is a couple websites on the on the english source sheet on the end of number nine the second url it mentions if you look up chabad.org the sabbatical year six reasons and he mentions the kabad website brings down the rambam it brings down also the barbanel and it brings down the clear car so there are several reasons why what is behind this mitzvah so let's begin this paragraph over again there are a variety of reasons for this mitzvah kirabi mohmrim many say shattamu saritzkadesha kocha lizzorea that the main reason according to this opinion is the reason we lay foul of the land is in order to increase the sub-force for the seeding for the growth of the plants oladaya zoo nota harav mara at least leans towards and opines the rambam however he mentions rabin khokhim olav there are many that don't agree fully with that the amru and what do they say they say like this meaning the ones that disagree with the rambam would say like this that if the torah is really concerned le zephidus shalom that the land itself should not become weakened yes why is i'm going to use the word punishment lightly why let's say the consequence why is there a consequence that's liable to happen as a result of shemitah it's by not guarding shemitah properly why are the jews exiled we are it has to be clear and i have a few sukim to explain that in case you're not aware of the idea that if the jews don't keep shmita properly that there are consequences such as exodus from the land just to take a look at number 10 then the lamb will be appeased regarding its sabbaticals meaning if you don't keep it during all the days that it remains desolate we will be kicked off the land while you were in the land of your enemies if the torah is telling us you will be in the land of your enemies that means we're not in the land of israel and the land will then experience its rest and thus appease its sabbaticals there are a few other examples okay maybe we'll come across them later i don't want to get too sidetracked so then that's really the question that people would ask why would you ask that in other words if the torah was so concerned that the land rest then what benefit is there to throw the jews off so what they would say is that if the torah was so concerned that the the land remained desolate so that shalom that the land should not become infertile that should not that that doesn't become any weaker if the jews aren't here who's going to come lomi is kaido gullus why would be liable why would the consequence be exile on not keeping shemitah properly ye amnesham shallow toasty for arts take kohala wouldn't it make sense that the natural result is enough as a punishment that the land itself will not produce if you jews are here and you what's the word you continue to work the land that you just deplete the minerals and the land will produce less that would make sense and not only that he says the oat shames this shabbos shem if you're doing it for the sake of the replenishing of the minerals then it's not a shabbos to hashem you're not doing it for the sake of god kim litsar it's it sounds like you're only doing it for the sake of the land and we have this verse we mentioned it already but it's in chapter 27 verse 34 of leviticus so you'll find this on anybody going to help me here which first uh 26 34 sorry 26 34. number 10. so number 10 it says right at the very end the land will rest and thus appease its sabbaticals as it says the oz tishbo the if that's the case that the land itself will appease its years we have actually a rashi on that this verb is reflexive form and the meaning is then the land will be appeased and in turn appease the anger of hashem who has been angry regarding the land shemitah years and thus appease god regarding them okay and then it says in thus appease this verb is in the causative form meaning the land will appease the king regarding its sabbaticals so what is that referring to he says what benefit would there be menu israel that the jewish people are thrown off the land the yeast where other nations will end up as as larry mentioned passing through of course not having any success but nevertheless here asher leolambo they're not going to stop for the seventh year they're going to work it and exploit the land as much as they can in fact we found out that this land was full of trees and you know who took them out the romans you know you know in in modern history israel has probably planted more trees per capita than any nation in the last few hundred years but we have history that the non-jews have exploited this land and didn't they never replenished they only took and they took a lot of the lumber labor lumber and uh deforested deforested deforestation so what would it help so what does it help to have the here working the land with non-stop the eight ishmael it's how does the land rest if the jews are not here you have other people here and then he mentions the ikeda he's no suntan he gives a totally different reason for this mitzvah and he says to shatak lead mitzvah zoo that the prime purpose or reason for this mitzvah is olan in order to remember that there is a creator very nice but the clear car has a little bit of a problem with that and he also says to remember the history that the world was created in six days that you have a six thousand year cycle and all that that's all very nice but guess what he mentions the ma the barbanel writes similarly and he says the barbanel even adds to that the hoisief ode nephach michalo now this is very strange the cleocar in his genius and maybe even chutzpah but it's genius because he says this reason is so far from reason in other words the the explanation given does not really make sense and now he tells you why according to him it doesn't make sense if it's all in order to remember you have a creator what does shabbos do isn't shabbos and it comes when every week right every end of every six days you celebrate shabbat in order to remember we the creator we're celebrating and recognizing that hashem is the creator of the universe so there's a slang phrase it basically means no further proof is necessary kiyom shabas tamidi we have shabbos every single week the kosher vooaboo comes on a constant basis comes once a week veem who low yo wheel now if that doesn't help you infuse you infuse within you the idea that there's a creator of the universe then what possible salvation would there be for us what help would there be for us if we have to remember something that comes every 49 years if it doesn't help you every week god help you to try to remember when it comes once every 49 years so he basically is not happy with the safe rakeda and the abarbanel's prime reason he doesn't disclude them as reasons but he claims that's not the prime reason and the next paragraph he will get into the whole idea of what is the main reason behind the midst of shemitah and yovo and now he continues in order to resolve in order to answer up several of the details within the language itself of the parsha omir ani the cleocar is going to tell you what's on his mind shettam it's the zoo who the real main purpose of this mitzvah the prime reason behind this mitzvah drumroll is [Music] to embed to endow to enrich right from the word charish the word rooting rooting within israel within the jewish people this character trait of faith and trust in god you know what hashem he created us he knows we're just flesh and bones and he was concerned for the following reason and this is big we should all know this pen beverage lest we come to the land yet and we get involved in farm work or any other work we work the land in a natural fashion this land is supernatural if we are keeping the mitzes and doing the torah we're doing it right then this land will not react in a normal natural fashion as we all know the jews were an for close to 2000 years when i say we're still in exile but we were out of the land for close to 2000 years and when we started returning hundreds of years ago at wherever we went it seemed to blossom right i don't have to you can look in the news you can look it up but that is the fact so based on that is now once we're here the cashier kabir matsuya and then once we're here and we succeed we think it's our strength hashem we would god forbid forget god the asiru bitronam and we would remove our trust in god i want you to go to deuteronomy chapter 8 verse it's really i guess verse 18. i have here number 13. you can read all you know what you could start at the beginning verse 11 beware that you do not forget the lord your god by not keeping his commandments his ordinances his statues but i command you today and then you're going to have all these i call them you know successes right lest you eat and be satisfied and build good houses and dwell therein your herds and your flocks multiply and you have silver and gold increase and all you have increases your heart and then your heart might grow haughty and you might forget the lord your god again that's how it started do not forget the lord your god but if you have all this heil you have all this success and wealth and might you might come to forget the lord your god who brought you out out of the land of egypt out of the house of bondage who led you to the great and awesome desert with all kinds of snakes and vipers and scorpions and drought and of course there was no water who brought water for you out of the solid rock who fed you with man in the desert which your forefathers did not know in order to afflict you and in order to test you to benefit you in your end now this is the important part not that the other part wasn't and you will say to yourself this is the biggest niksha this is the stumbling block you will say to yourself it's my strength and the light of my hand that has accumulated this wealth for me so in hebrew it's i'm the cause i'm the right it's all because of me but rather you must remember the lord your god for it is he that gives you strength to make wealth in order to establish his covenant which he swore to your forefathers as on this day he's the one who gave you the strength beautiful point here so therefore the yakshavu kikoham the oisim yodam what will they think when they accumulate all this wealth they will think that it was their own might and their own power that has caused the success and what else will they think that the actual world goes according to the natural way and that's not true meaning the world does but the earth's israel does not the yakuza or it's and you know what the jews are going to think that the land belongs to them now i don't want any anti-semites getting the wrong idea okay but rather what are they going to think haim habalim the ain zulatam the jews are going to think the land belongs to them and no and it doesn't belong to anybody else they're the masters that they're the masters and there is no other master that's the problem al kane hodziam hashem in a minha and this is the reason that hashem removed us from the natural order of things when we're in this land it's supernatural and as we discussed before you can walk along the highway and all of a sudden as the jews are walking along the highway the flowers are coming at them blossoming and meeting them that's a you know a uh a little bit of exaggeration but you get the point wherever we're able to settle then we see the land produce okay so then he goes on to say ki beshay shanim what does it do with the normal world in the normal world bishop in a six year cycle derek the way they do it let's say they take their land and they divide into like a pie a triple a three-way pie and every year they'll let one-third remain fallow so it means that every six years they had two cycles of leaving a fallow and that would be you know you look up in the farmer's almanac it makes sense that's the normal way of doing things but you know what god said we're gonna we're gonna get to it soon so that's the way the non-jews do it and then why could they shallow in order not to weaken the the um the strength of the ground but what does it say to us he says six years you shall cede your field sheisha he's telling us already do it don't take off one year when it comes to six year cycle don't do like the nations who do these crop rotations continue for six years straight me deshana bashanah continuously every single year and i hashem not me not pointing to me i hashem he says i am promising you that i'm going to actually add and not weaken i'm going to add power or let's say um potential to the land and it's not going to become weakened so one second he says odness but i want to just say this outside a little bit what he's going to do is tell us that there's two miracles and then there's a third way above and beyond those two miracles the first miracle is that you will work for six years and it won't diminish then i promise you that not only will it diminish but it will even increase now what we think is increase may it's going to be mind-boggling because when we think of increase we think of quantity he's going to say it's an increase of something else on a different level so he says batoknes there's furthermore one miracle within a miracle after i command you and you do it six straight years in bashan and in that sixth year you did not see any diminishing it's going that's already a miracle isn't it yosef la so the first miracle would be maybe it didn't increase but at least minimally for sure it didn't decrease you know what god says adaraba i'm actually going to cause an increase so they got the first nace the first miracle it didn't decrease yo he is going to increase it so much question is in what way we see a verse it's in chapter 25 verse 21 okay so it says over there that vitsaviti bishana hashishit okay so what is hashem doing he's saying i command the blessing hashem commands the blessing in the sixth year that's going to make and i'm going to pause right here ha to vua the clear car will describe what the hey we're going to call it a definitive hey hey how you doing okay what is that hay doing there but anyway let's read on i command i command the my blessing in the sixth year and i'm going to make the tabula the produce for three years he's going to tell us something amazing he that according to the clear car he's not giving you three years in the sixth year i always thought oh he's going to give us three years worth in the sixth year but that's more like a curse than a blessing remember he says i'm giving you a blessing will be the curse if you had to work so hard in that sixth year to bring in all that i mean you know what a watermelon a big watermelon can be you have to bring in three years worth your back would break all and you have to do it like all in one small harvest period of time all those potatoes all those carrots all whatever it is you're right all the the fruits and everything that'd be a lot and then you have to think about where you're going to store it all you have to build more silos and after you build them i mean how much time do you have then you have to think about how you're going to keep the rodents and the mold and whatever else you know the the the the pests what they call you know the the the insects anything that's going to eat away and that's a lot to think about so you know what he says no but rather aye they call him the main reason i'm creating all these miracles is in order that you should know through all these signs and proofs that that i that i have done for you is that you should know i am the master of the earth of the land not you they say and through these miracles that are happening you will always be looking up you always having raised your eyes towards the lord commotion with cena but you read us just like we found out when the man came when the mana came when we were in the desert so it came from the heavens and it was directly from hashem and we knew it there were a lot of miracles that took place by the way if you were righteous very righteous you open your front door of your tent and you found your minor right by the door if you weren't so righteous you might have to go to the end of your driveway and if you're even less righteous you'd have to go around the corner around the block maybe to the edge of the camp and everyone knew this guy's obviously righteous he opens the door and his his mind is sitting right by his front door like this guy's walking around the corner looking for it and he can't find it he obviously did something wrong anyway so we were always looking towards hashem and we had we listened to words he says kadeshu a nahim nisua tamid just like the man so too here we're always going to be constantly raising our eyes towards hashem the yiftuhu botamine and we would have constant trust in the lord so to just like it happened with the man so too by shemitah ain't zero of the incur right that we would not work the land the entire seventh year we wouldn't seed it or sow it nor would we would harvest the land the ism but rather we would rely on the miracles that the that tavua would be enough for three years name now that so far is seemingly let's say two miracles number one that it didn't diminish number two what we think is there was an increase but how much of an increase listen to what he says that even though oh i skipped something haresh ne maseinisim that's two miracles vishli shimakula but there's a third miracle that's way beyond the other two ready sheep that the the produce that was made in that sixth year af if it was really only the regular amount that you would get on a regular year but you'd see your sixth year mccoma remember he said i command the bracha i command the blessing there is some kind of command of god's blessing within the granary within the plenty that we received and that is that you would eat a small amount and it would increase within your stomach now i just keep in mind the word baruch means the source the source is where all increase comes from the word baroque is with a bet cuff those three letters are all derivatives of the number two bet is two uh ratios two is um two hundred cuff is twenty two always means an increase it implies more than one it's an increase so somehow another we would eat a small amount and within our me within our digestive tract it would be blessed there would be some kind of increase ad even though it was enough for the sixth year i mean it was quantity the same as you would get any other year that's what you would get in the sixth year for some miraculous reason it would keep us alive through those three years and how does he know he uses this from the uh the grammar itself the that the you will yield a crop it doesn't say it says it's like really it says you would yield the crop you dea in definitive hay it's talking about a very specific crop that god will give you a very special crop in the sixth year loma now if it didn't mean what i'm telling you it means the clear course says it should have said to allah it would make crops or crop for three years doesn't say that el sharma is hinted at within the hay which is called definitive hay that what that it's that very produce that is already regular to you you're accustomed to that quantity la sot me des that you get every single year that is the crop you would get in the sixth year and the yosef hashem hashem is giving the um the land power or potential us until that very tavua is enough for you for three years so he's explaining that that third miracle is even greater than the other two okay it's like this is a openly revealed miracle and the clear car tells us what i have just told you is more correct and clear than any of the other commentators luthi dinhu now he explains why it's logical that exiles should be the consequence for not keeping shemitah properly dinhu she is because of the lack from the aspect of the lack in trust in god since we didn't trust in hashem the lo we did not trust in his salvation that we didn't trust that god would perform for us a miracle like this that he would create such a miracle for us by producing the uh the produce that would last three years like it says now in jeremiah chapter 5 verse 1. if you can help me find it it's number 16 that when jeremiah we're talking about before the destruction of the sec of the first temple that um basically if you would if he would have found people who sought out faith who were trying to increase their faith in hashem then god would have forgiven the jewish people but apparently there weren't that many people walking around seeking look what it says stroll in the streets of jerusalem and see now and know and seek in its squares whether you will find a man whether there is one who performs justice comma seeks faith comma and i will forgive her so he's trying to say there were very few people who were real seekers at that time so based on that truth be told that's we did get exiled gamma are its osmo what the clear car is going to say is absolutely amazing we already discussed the idea if the jews don't keep shmita the land is going to exile us the land hashem no the land also wants to be appeased and the land wants to be a part of the mechanism it's an inanimate object when i say inanimate i mean it's dome it's minerals it's rocks right and yet there's a life force everything in this universe that is whether it's domain it's a mineral a rock formation or whether it's flowers and and growth all the way up to animals there's always a life force behind everything and it as as if right as if it's alive we're talking about just the life force even the land itself is machped is exacting and strict regarding this very much so now the land wants to take credit it really wants that the cause of the merit of the jewish people being on the land is through her okay she's feelings and i know i'm talking about an inanimate object here it wants to strengthen the faith of the jewish people in god through her and there's no question we can see the history of the jewish people coming back and the land blossoming the land wants the world saying there's something unique going on the jews have returned look at her she's blossoming the odd not only that aya desai yaminu a that through her right and through the growth that's coming as a result then everyone the jews especially that all of us would think to ourselves all we are are sharecroppers remember the the problem was that we think we're the owners we're the masters and there is no other no we're just sharecroppers sharecroppers means that we're just doing the work but we have a master we have an owner we have someone above us and who's that hakash baruch that hashem is the owner of the field and this is what the land wants us to know the land itself wants that god himself is her owner and her master not us killoya's broke hearts because the land and the earth really belongs to hashem now what if god forbid the jews don't keep shemitah will be beaten we said the result is what exile kebbali because we acted and behaved as if we were the owners of the land the masters of the land roihu of course it's fitting for the land to react in an exacting fashion regarding this and that's why the torah told us then the land will what be appeased for the for the shemitahs that she didn't keep of allah almost but regarding the non-jews that are here working the land when we're not low talk beat you know what the land doesn't care it's not exacting go ahead act like your normal fashion because it knows you ain't going to be here for very long he called hannah it knows you know so what you're going to do everything naturally and that's okay because you don't have the faith in hashem anyway vyakatsa now the clear car ends the paragraph by saying after going through this thesis through this proposal that everything i said is 100 true okay i'm now going to explain each verse and each word how it follows up and agrees with everything i said kiheima maschini everything i said is proven clearly in the language okay it's absolutely true ain't sufficible which there is no doubt so my blessing to you is not only have a great shabbos have a great year we're in the middle of a shemitah year until a majority of the jews are living in the land we are still keeping shmita but on a lower level when the majority of the jews come back it's going to catapult it's going to be springboarded to a higher level eternal level and it will mean a lot more so bazrat hashem i hope this is true by the next maybe even the middle of this meet the cycle meaning in the middle of this meet the year but by the next seven years their bazrat hashem we should pray for the ingathering of the exiles for the jews to return home and we will experience these miracles in a much greater way and with that i wish you shabbat shalom have a great life and 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