‘PARSHA BEHAR’
THE ATTRIBUTES OF G-D’S DIVINE NATURE
The ‘parsha’ (‘Torah’ portion) this week is a double ‘parsha’, ‘Parsha Behar - Bechukotai’. Because of this, ‘Parsha Bechukotai’ will be found as a separate article on the ‘Thought for the Week’ page of this website.
‘Parsha Behar’ (on the mountain), is found in Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2. The corresponding ‘haftorah’ (reading of the prophets) is found in Jeremiah 32:6-22.
On the mountain of Sinai, G d communicates to Moses the laws of the Sabbatical year. Every seventh year, all work on the land should cease, and its produce becomes free for the taking for all, man and beast.