JUNE 10, 2022 Leviticus 26:3-4 If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. In Hebrew, this chapter is known as tochacha — literally “warning” because, similarly […]
JUNE 9, 2022 Leviticus 24:47-48 Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner close to you, or to a member of the stranger’s family, after he is sold he may be redeemed again. As we shared in the previous […]
JUNE 8, 2022 Leviticus 24:47-48 Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner close to you, or to a member of the stranger’s family, after he is sold he may be redeemed again. In Jewish thought, the ultimate degradation […]
JUNE 7, 2022 Leviticus 25:39-40 And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave. As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee. Slavery, as we perceive it, is fundamentally evil and so how […]
JUNE 6, 2022 Leviticus 25:36-37 Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you. You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit. In keeping with the message from the previous devotion, the Bible tells us that we are […]
JUNE 5, 2022 Leviticus 25:35 If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. In a previous devotion, we mentioned that, in Judaism, the highest form of charity is to step in and help someone before […]
JUNE 3, 2022 Leviticus 25:18-19 So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety. Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety. The beauty of these verses is revealed in the fact that, during the […]
JUNE 2, 2022 Leviticus 25:13-14 In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another. In Rabbinical thinking, the laws of the Jubilee imply certain things about those who had lost their inheritance. Specifically, […]
June 1, 2022 Leviticus 25:9-10 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be […]
MAY 31, 2022 Leviticus 25:6-7 And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you, for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food. Once again, we see, by virtue of this command, […]
MAY 30, 2022 Leviticus 25:1-2 And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.’” During the Sabbatical year, the land of Israel was to lie fallow and be “released” from […]
MAY 29, 2022 Leviticus 25:1-2 And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.’” During the Sabbatical year, the land of Israel was to lie fallow and be “released” from […]