Prisonweekly Torah: FW: [bibletrivaweeklytorah] Prison weekly Sabbath Av 29, 5768

Shalom B'Shem Yeshua HaMashiach

Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

&Mark 9:23,10:27

" THE Truth will set you FREE" Y

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Shalom

The Hebrew month is Av These Parashahs HaShavuah are for Sabbath Av 29, 5768

Torah Re'eh "see" Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17

Haftarah Isaiah 54:11-55:5 Brit Hadasha 1 John 4:1-6

Next weeks Shoftim "Judges"

Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9

Haftarah Isaiah 51:12-52:12 Brit Hadasha 1 Corinithians 5:9-13

"Fortunate is a man who listens to Me, and sits by My doors every day, guarding the entrances of My house. Those who find Me have found life, and will obtain favor from Hashem. A sinner damages his soul; those who hate Me love death" (Mishlei 8:34- 36). Rabbenu Yonah z"l writes that the first two verses quoted here sing the praises of a person who devotes his time to Torah study. By contrast, those who hate the Torah, its teachings, and its ethics will have no peace in this world or the next. These lessons parallel the opening section of our parashah: "Behold I have placed before you a blessing and a curse." Later (in Parashat Nitzavim) the Torah elaborates: "Life and death I have placed before you, the blessing and the curse." Chazal teach that we are free to choose what we will-life/blessing or death/curse-but Hashem advises (Devarim 30:19), "Choose life so that you and your children may live." The choice described above is what the prophet Yirmiyah was referring to when he said (Eichah 3:38), "Good and bad do not come from the mouth of the One above." Rather, it is our choice. Therefore, (Eichah 3:39), "What can a person complain about, except each man over his own sins?" What should we do if we have sinned? Yirmiyah continues (3:40), "Let us search our ways and investigate, and return to Hashem." (Derashot U'perushei Rabbenu Yonah Al HaTorah)

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"And you shall eat your tithes before G-d, in the place where G-d will choose to rest His Name . . . , in order that you should learn to fear G-d all the days." (14:23)

R' Simcha Zissel Ziv z"l (the "Alter of Kelm"; died 1898) explains the end of this verse: This does not mean that one must fear G-d all of one's days; that goes without saying. Rather it means that one must learn more on each of his days about how to fear G-d. R' Chaim Friedlander z"l adds: This explains why one must "eat [his] tithes before G-d, in the place where G-d will choose to rest his Name," i.e., in Yerushalayim. Even though the Jews would pilgrimage to Yerushalayim three times a year for the holidays, the Torah wanted them to spend even more time in that holy and inspiring city. (Siftei Chaim)

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"If there shall be a destitute person among you . . . you shall not harden your heart or close your hand to your destitute brother. Rather, you shall surely open your hand . . ." (15:7-8)

R' Yitzchak Karo z"l (died 1535; uncle of R' Yosef Karo z"l) derives several lessons from these verses regarding how to give charity. First, why does the verse mention the heart? Doesn't the poor person need your hand, rather than your heart? He explains: When one is unable to give, he is often tempted to shut the door in the beggar's face. This is not proper. Even if your wallet is empty, open you heart and speak comforting words to the pauper. This, too, is charity. More generally, these words teach us to dispense charity with a smile. Why does the Torah use the seemingly redundant language: "[Y]ou shall not close your hand to your destitute brother. Rather, you shall surely open your hand"? R' Karo explains: Sometimes you may reach into your pocket and remove a larger coin (or bill) than you intended. Even in such a case, the Torah emphasizes through its double language, do not close your hand. If the pauper has seen the large coin that was in your hand, give it to him. (Toldot Yitzchak)

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"You shall make a holiday of Sukkot for yourself" (16:13)

R' Shlomo Halberstam shlita(the "Bobover Rebbe") notes that the root of the word "Sukkah" is the name for one of the forms of Ruach Hakodesh/Divine Inspiration, i.e., the ability to see that which is hidden (see Rashi to Bereishit 11:29). Thus, this verse may be read as a lesson that every person should set aside times ("make a holiday") devoted to introspection, i.e., seeing oneself. (Quoted in Sukkat Bet Ropshitz p.31) ******

"Shiv'ah D'nechemta"

The haftarot of the seven weeks following Tishah B'Av are known as the "Shiv'ah D'nechemta"/"The Seven of Consolation" This name derives from the fact that each of these haftarot promises that Hashem will console us after the terrible suffering that we have experienced in exile. R' Azaryah Figo z"l (Italy; 1579-1647) writes that the number seven is not random. He explains: Before Tishah B'Av, we read the haftarot known as the "Gimel D'puranuta"/"Three of Calamity." (The number three parallels the number of weeks between the Fasts of the 17th of Tammuz and Tishah B'Av.) Because we are taught that the measure of Hashem's good exceeds the measure of His retribution, therefore we double the number associated with calamity (i.e., three) when we read the haftarot of consolation. This results in six haftarot of consolation. As for the seventh haftarah, it is different in that it speaks of Bnei Yisrael's acceptance of the promised consolation.

In addition, R' Figo writes, each of the "Gimel D'puranuta" contains two calamities, and each of the six haftarot of consolation "undoes" one of them. The first haftarah after the 17th of Tammuz begins: "Divrei Yirmiyahu"/"The words of Jeremiah." Chazal teach that the verb "le'daber" (in contrast to "laimor") connotes harsh speech. Paralleling this is the haftarah of Va'etchanan, in which the prophet speaks gently, "Nachamu, nachamu"/"Be comforted! Be comforted!" Also, the first haftarah of calamity states: "See, I have appointed you [i.e., Yirmiyahu] this day . . . to uproot and to smash and to destroy and to raze." The haftarah for Eikev responds with verses such as: "Your spoilers and destroyers must depart from you" and "Hashem shall comfort Zion; He shall comfort all her ruins." The second haftarah of calamity rebukes Bnei Yisrael for distancing themselves from the Torah: "[E]ven those charged with teaching Torah did not know Me." The haftarah for Re'eh counters: "All your children will be students of Hashem." And, in response to the calamitous verse (from the second haftarah), "Is Israel a slave? . . . Why has he become prey?" the haftarah for Shoftim responds, "Wake up! Wake up! Don your strength . . . for no longer shall there enter into you any uncircumcised or contaminated person." While the haftarah of calamity speaks of Israel as a victim of oppressors, the haftarah of consolation speaks of Israel's strength and glory. Finally, the third haftarah of calamity informs us that Hashem will not accept our prayers because of our sins: "When you spread your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even if you were to increase prayer, I do not hear." The haftarah for Ki Tetze promises, however: "For but a slight moment I have forsaken you . . . With a slight wrath I have concealed My countenance." Also, while the third haftarah of calamity speaks of the punishment for misusing our wealth, the haftarah for Ki Tavo tells of the great riches that await us: "In place of copper I will bring gold; and in place of iron I will bring silver . . ." In the last haftarah, Bnei Yisrael accept these six consolations: "I will rejoice intensely with Hashem." (Binah La'ittim: Drush Aleph L'Shabbat Nachamu)

Sabbatical and Jubilee - Shemitah ve-Yovel

a) The Sabbatical Year

We are commanded to rest from working the land every seventh year and are forbidden to cultivate fields or trees during that year, as it says "And the land shall rest, a sabbath to Ha-Shem; [six years you shall sow your fields and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather its produce, and in the seventh year shall be a sabbath for the land, a sabbath to Ha-Shem]; you shall not sow your field and you shall not prune your vineyard"¹; and it says "In plowing time and harvest time you shall rest".² Types of agricultural work not mentioned in these verses are forbidden at most rabbinically.^a
Anything that grows during the seventh year can be eaten, as it says "And the sabbath of the land shall be for you to eat [for you and your slave and maidservant and your hired worker and the settler who lives with you and your animal and the wild beast in your land all its produce shall be to eat]".³ It is rabbinically forbidden to eat plants that are normally sown for cultivation unless they grow in a place that is not normally cultivated; but the fruit of trees and plants not normally sown can be eaten in any case. It is forbidden to harvest in the normal manner, as it says "You shall not reap a harvest of what grows by itself and you shall not gather the grapes of your untended vine; [it shall be a sabbatical year for the land]".⁴ All of these laws apply only in the land of Israel (and rabbinically in parts of Jordan and Syria; but everything that grows there is permitted, as is everything that grow s on land owned by a non-Jew even in the land of Israel).^b
We are commanded to abandon everything that the land produces in the seventh year so that all have equal rights in it, as it says"[Six years you shall sow your land and gather its produce;] and the seventh you shall release and abandon it and the poor of your people shall eat [and what they leave over the beast of the field shall eat; so too you shall do to your vineyard, to your olive]".⁵ This produce can be used only for normal eating, drinking and anointing, as well as for fuel or dye; it must not be destroyed or used for commercial purposes, but can be sold in small quantities to buy other food and the like. It can be eaten only as long as food of the same species is still to be found in the fields, as it says "And for your animal and the wild beast in your land all its produce shall be to eat"3 -- as long as a beast can eat it in the field one may eat it in one's house, but when it is finished for the beasts in the field one is required to clean it out of one's house.^c

We are commanded to abandon all outstanding loans at the end of the seventh year and are forbidden to claim them, as it says "At the end of seven years you shall make a release... everyone shall release his claim that he has against his friend; he shall not oppress his friend and his brother".⁶ This law applies in all lands; it applies rabbinically even when the Temple does not exist. It does not apply to loans on collateral or to loans registered in court, as it says "but abandon what you have with your brother"6 -- and not what a court can demand from him. It is forbidden to refrain from lending money before the seventh year for fear that it will not be possible to collect it, as it says "Take care lest an unworthy [thought] be in your heart, [namely that] the seventh year, the year of release, is near, and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you do not give him [a loan]...; you shall give to him and your heart sha ll not be sad in giving to him...".⁷,^d

b) The Jubilee Year

We are commanded to count seven times seven years and to sanctify the fiftieth year, as it says "And you shall count seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times... and you shall sanctify the fiftieth year... it shall be a Jubilee for you".⁸ On the 10th of Tishrei of the Jubilee year we are commanded to blow a horn, as it says "And you shall pass a blowing horn in the seventh month on the tenth of the month; on the Day of Atonement you shall pass a horn throughout your land".⁸ The Jubilee year is exactly like the sabbatical year as regards cultivation [as it says "A Jubilee the fiftieth year shall be for you; you shall not sow and not harvest what grows by itself and not gather what is untended; for it is a Jubilee, it shall be holy for you, you shall eat its produce from the field"]⁹; but it does not require release of loans. The commandments involving the Jubilee year, including the laws of Jewish slaves, houses in walled cities, and land consecrated to the Temple or "devoted" to the priests, apply only when all of Israel dwells in the land of Israel.^e Land in the land of Israel must not be sold in perpetuity, as it says "And the land shall not be sold permanently".¹⁰ Land sold (or given away) for other than a fixed period of time can be bought back at any time after two years if the owner acquires the means, and in any case it reverts to the original owner at the beginning of the Jubilee year [as it says "In this Jubilee year you shall return each to his property.... by the number of years [to] the Jubilee you shall buy from your friend; by the number of years of crops he shall sell to you; if there are many years you shall increase the price; if there are few years, you shall diminish the price; for he is selling you [only] a number of crops"]¹¹; and it says "And in all the land of your possession you shall allow the land to be redeemed"¹²; [and it says "If your brother becomes poor and sells his property... and he finds the means to redeem it he shall compute the years of the sale and return the excess to the man to whom he sold it and return to his property; and if he does not find means enough to repay him his purchase shall be in the hands of its buyer until the Jubilee year and it shall be released in the Jubilee and he shall return to his property"]¹³; [and it says "In the jubilee year the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to the one whose property the land is"].¹⁴ But if the buyer improved it he must be paid for the improvements.^f If one sells a house in a walled city he must redeem it within a year; if he does not, it does not revert to him at the Jubilee year [as it says "And if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city its redemption shall be until a full year from its sale... but if it is not redeemed by the time a full year is completed the house in the walled city belongs to the buyer in perpetuity, to his generations; it does not go out at the Jubilee"].¹⁵ A house not in a walled city can be redeemed at any time, and if it is not redeemed it reverts to the original owner at the Jubilee [as it says "But houses in villages that have no wall around them shall be counted with the fields of the land; it can be redeemed and it goes out in the Jubilee"].¹⁶,^g The Levites were given 48 cities in the land of Israel [as it says "They shall give the Levites... cities to dwell in and pasture around the cities... the cities that you shall give to the Levites, 48 cities together with their pastures"].¹⁷ The pastures extend 3000 cubits outside the cities, as it says "[And the pastures of the cities that you shall give to the Levites] from the wall of the city and beyond a thousand cubits all around; and you shall measure from outside the city... two thousand cubits with the city in the middle} -- the first thousand for pasture; the two thousand that are measured beyond the pasture, for fields and vineyards. The pasture should not be used as a field nor the field as a pasture, as it says "And the field of the pasture of their cities shall not be sold".¹⁹ If a Levite (or the heir of a Levite) sells or consecrates any of this property he can redeem it at any t ime, even after the Jubilee year, as it says "The Levites shall have perpetual redemption".²⁰ The Levites have no other share in the land of Israel or in the spoils of its conquest, as it says "The priests and Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance in Israel..."²¹; and it says "And Ha-Shem said to Aaron: You shall have no inheritance in their land and you shall have no portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance".²²,^h

Sources: 1. Lev. 25:2-4 a. 1:1,10 2. Ex. 34:21 b. 4:1-4,22,25-29 3. Lev. 25:6-7 c. 4:24; 5:1,17; 6:1; 7:1 4. Lev. 25:5 d. 9:1-4,14-15 5. Ex. 23:10-11 e. 10:1,8-10,15-16 6. Deut. 15:1-3 f. 10:16; 11:1-2,4-5,8-9,17,19 7. Deut. 15:9-10 g. 12:1,4,10 8. Lev. 25:8-10 h. 13:1-2,4,7-8,10 9. Lev. 25:11-12 10. Lev. 25:23 11. Lev. 25:13,15-16 12. Lev. 25:24 13. Lev. 25:25-28 14. Lev. 27:24 15. Lev. 25:29-30 16. Lev. 25:31 17. Num. 35:2,7 18. Num. 35:4-5 19. Lev. 25:34 20. Lev. 25:32 21. Deut. 18:1 22. Num. 18:20

Joel 2:12 - Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

Shalom in Yeshau Messiah

Praise be to Yahweh for He is Good!

I haven't written for awhile so I thought I had better type ya a few words to let ya know what I been doin. I pretty much have the items I need to make about twenty maybe more food boxes. I still need to pick up a few things but I have the funds to. The garden has been puttin out tomatoes and cucumbers for every meal the past few weeks an the people love'm. I know Dan has been keepin you all updated so I wasn't worried about ya not hearin from me. LOL

The newsletter should of went out but no funding for it yet. The bus needs tags taday they expire on Sunday. My car also expires but I dropped the insurance on it today because it over heats and needs to be taken to the dealership. I did have it inthe shop for ten days and they told me they couldn't find anything wrong with it but when I picked it up I drove twenty miles and it overheated so I drove it home and parked it. The mini van was done it ran about fifteen miles the had a loud pop and quite so I dropped the insurance on it today also and the tags expire Sunday.

Bills oh Bills I'm beginning to believe that is what live is all about is paying bills. I have three bills left to pay for August and five or more coming due the first of the week for September. They never seem to STOP! Pray about supporting Yahweh may be waiting to use You!

I will turn 46 this coming Wednesday and I really can't believe how fast time is going! Everything moves so fast a month is like a week and a week like a day. Anyway it's late an I need ta get some shut eye for taday so lift us in prayer keep your eyes and ears open and watch TIME IS SHORT!

Love ya sisterlinda

Shalom B'Shem Yeshua HaMashiach

Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah

&Mark 9:23,10:27

" THE Truth will set you FREE"

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