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Re(a)d Torah (Parashat Behar and Parashat Bechukotai)

May 15, 2009 | By Maggid Jhos Singer

Media Type(s): Torah Commentary

Textual Source: Leviticus

Torah Portion: Bechukotai, Behar

This resource is part of the Torah Queeries collection.

The author argues that this Torah portion contains an in-your-face radical economic construct–the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, where land lays fallow and community financial scores are set back to zero (respectively). He discusses how this text might be useful during economic downturns, like the foreclosure crisis of 2008.

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