Good Morning. And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave. As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee. (Leviticus...

Good Morning. Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you. You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit. (Leviticus 25:36-37) In keeping with the message from the previous devotion, the...

Good Morning. If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. (Leviticus 25:35) In a previous devotion, we mentioned that, in Judaism, the highest form of...

Good Morning. The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me. (Leviticus 25:23) As we have addressed in a previous devotion, the land given to the people as an inheritance could not be permanently sold...

Good Morning. So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety. Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety (Leviticus 25:18-19) The beauty of these verses...

Good Morning. In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another. (Leviticus 25:13-14) In Rabbinical thinking, the laws of the Jubilee imply...

Good Morning. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty...

Good Morning. And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you, for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food. (Leviticus...

Good Morning. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord. (Leviticus 25:3-4) The Sabbatical year, the...

Good Morning. And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.'" (Leviticus 25:1-2) During the Sabbatical year, the...

Good Morning. You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 24:22) In connection with the instructions given in relation to the incident we discussed in the previous devotion is the commandment...

Good Morning. Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp. (Leviticus 24:10) This may seem a strange passage to use for the...