{"id":1134,"date":"2011-05-08T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/bblog2\/client\/index.cfm\/2011\/5\/8\/Parashat-Behar-What-is-up-with-the-Year-of-Jubilee"},"modified":"2012-09-29T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:23:22","slug":"parashat-behar-what-is-up-with-the-year-of-jubilee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/parashat-behar-what-is-up-with-the-year-of-jubilee\/","title":{"rendered":"Parashat Behar: What is up with the Year of Jubilee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<!-- Place some text here to wrap near image --><\/p>\n<p>Parashat Behar is Hebrew for &#8220;on the mount&rdquo; or &ldquo;on the mountain,&rdquo; it is the fifth<br \/>\nword, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah from the 32nd weekly Torah portion (parashah)<br \/>\nin the annual cycle of reading the Torah and the ninth parashah in the book of <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<em>Vayikra \/ Leviticus<\/em><\/font>.&nbsp; In this week&rsquo;s reading we find the mitzvah (command) when<br \/>\nentering the Promised Land to observe a year of Jubilee (Yovel).&nbsp; The year of Jubilee begins with a<br \/>\njoyful shout with trumpets.&nbsp; During this year, the land was to be fallow, not to be seeded<br \/>\n(<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>25:1-12<\/em><\/font>), all property was to revert back to its original<br \/>\nowner (<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>25:13-28<\/em><\/font>), all slaves were to be set free<br \/>\n(<font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>25:39-54<\/em><\/font>), and all debts were to be released.&nbsp; The<br \/>\nyear of Jubilee is a very important festival but did you know there is no record in Scripture of the actual<br \/>\nobservance of this festival?&nbsp; There are however a few places in scripture that allude to the festival,<br \/>\nlet&rsquo;s look at a few of them this week.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/2010-2011\/Parashat%20Behar%20_2010-2011_.pdf\"> Read More here. <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parashat Behar is Hebrew for &#8220;on the mount&rdquo; or &ldquo;on the mountain,&rdquo; it is the fifth<br \/>\nword, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah from the 32nd weekly Torah portion (parashah)<br \/>\nin the annual cycle of reading t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-weekly-parashah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}