Parashat Behar-Bechukotai: Humility as a condition for Torah
Every seventh year, farmers in the Land of Israel must let their fields lie fallow and surrender the harvest to society – Jews and non-Jews – and even to animals.
COLLECTING ONIONS in a field in the Judean Valley. The farmer must let his fields lay fallow during the shmita year. (photo credit: NASSER ISHTAYEH/FLASH90)ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
