Why Would This Generation Experience the Messianic Redemption?

In this week’s Torah portion, Behar, we learn about the laws governing the sale of lands, and the prohibitions against fraud and usury. Most of the portion, however, is dedicated to the laws of the Sabbatical Year. The Torah states: “Six years you shall sow your field. and harvest your crops, but the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of strict rest for the land, you must not sow your field.” (Lev. 25:3)

“If you wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year?’ I shall command My blessing upon you in the sixth year to yield crops for three years.” (Ibid. 25:20-22)

This passage, which speaks of the mitzva (commandment) of Shemita (the Sabbatical year for the Land of Israel), may also be interpreted in the context of the world at large and the redemption.

The six years of working the land are analogous to the first six millennia of the world’s existence, when everything is prepared for the seventh millennium by means of Torah and mitzvot.

Our present generation is near the end of the sixth millennium. This raises an obvious question: Why should our generation, which is qualitatively so much lower than all our predecessors, merit to experience the Messianic redemption? What makes us more worthy than the spiritual giants of the past that we shall usher in the “seventh year,” the “day that is entirely Shabbat and repose for life everlasting”? In other words, we have a metaphorical paraphrase of the question, “What will we eat in the seventh year.?”

The Divine response is: “I shall command My blessing upon you in the sixth year.” The stature and deeds of the earlier generations were indeed much greater than those of now. On the other hand, the present state of moral corruption throughout the world requires an unprecedented amount of fortitude and self-sacrifice to carry out even our minimal obligations. This lends our continued observance of Torah and mitzvot a quality and blessing superseding that of our predecessors. Thus we are more than worthy to experience the redemption.

We shall merit the “crops for three years,” i.e., of the three stages in the Messianic era: the initial redemption, the later stage of the resurrection of the dead, and the ultimate “seventh millennium.”

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Shmita Year… Sabbatical Year

Tomorrow Night 8/29 (Sunset) will be the Anniversary of the Creation Day 1.  Happy Creation Day… to the Universe!  This coming Rosh Hashanah is a Shmita year. That means in Israel, all foods that are produced are for “pickings from the fields for the poor”… it is not for sale. If Israel does not do as they are to do for this. There are serious penalties to pay by the creator.  With the impending “Syria” (Possible) conflict this is a very serious position that the globe will have itself in.  The Hebrew year will be 5774 since Creation. Seven Sevens (7 x 7=49 years). This is the Shmita year we are entering.  The year after is called “Jubilee” (which is 50 years).

 

For more reading on Shmita year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmita

http://www.chabad.org/search/results.asp?searchWord=Sabbatical+and+Jubilee+Cycles

 

 

 

Judgments

Something to watch out for since both the

Sabbatical year and the Jubilee year

Which takes place in the Hebrew Years

5774-5776

(Autumn 2013 –Autumn 2015)

Judgment usually follows during this period.

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From Pirkei Avot Chapter 5, Mishnayot 8-9:

Mishna # 8

Seven types of retribution come to the world,

for seven types of sin.

When some tithe and others don’t,

a hunger caused by turmoil ensues:

some are hungry,

others have their fill of food.

When all are unanimous in their failure to tithe,

a hunger by drought ensues.

For not separating chalah,

an annihilating hunger results.

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Plaques come to the world for those capital crimes mentioned in the Torah that have not been given over to the court,

and

for desecrating the produce of the sabbatical year.

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The sword comes to the world for the procrastination of justice,

the corruption of justice,

and

because of those who misinterpret the Torah.

Mishna #9

Carnage by wild beasts comes to the world for false oaths

and

desecration of G-d’s name.

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Exile comes to the world for idol-worship,

sexual promiscuity,

murder

and

the failure to leave the land fallow on the Sabbatical year.

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Quoting my friend Emet who posted the above and I’m sharing with you:

G-D is the true judge, our actions inside and outside the land is the cause of good and evil in this world. Our fair and swift justice or lack thereof is what will cause our exile in the wilderness or our entry into the land.