Behar
- All the Mitzvos were given at Sinai. Why then is Sinai mentioned specifically in relation to
Shmittah?
- Which types of agriculture (work) are forbidden during years of Shmittah?
- There is a mitzvoh of counting (Sefira) mentioned here. Explain.
- How is the year of Yovel announced? And sanctified? In which month does it begin?
- What happens to fields and servants during Yovel? Are all servants alike?
- Do we blow the shofar anywhere on Rosh Hashonoh that comes on Shabbos? Proof?
- How many Shmittah years are there between two Yovel years?
- Why is the prohibition against unfair pricing written near the Yovel?
- Is there a mitzvoh to do business with a Jew? Proof? Even if it’s overpriced?
- Twice it is mentioned not to be unfair to another person. Why?
- What is the official punishment for violating the mitzvoh of Shmittah? The reward?
- “If you shall say, ‘What will we eat on the seventh year?’” What are they asking here?
- What promise does the Torah give them? Sometimes the promise is bigger. When?
- Which reason is given to comfort the people for having to return the field to the owner?
- Prove that a man should not sell his field except in poverty.
- Do houses also return to the original owner during the year of Yovel?
- When a field that was sold is redeemed by a friend, how is it done? And by the owner?
- Can one redeem part of a field? Proof?
- How long after it was sold may a field be redeemed?
- A house within a walled city cannot always be redeemed. Explain.
- What is the status (for redemption purposes) of a house in an open city?
- How many cities belonged to the Levi’im? Were all their cities walled?
- Are their rights to redeem fields and houses different than others’? Explain.
- If a Levi donated his field to the Beis Hamikdash treasury, can he redeem it?
- When no one redeems the Levi’s field, what happens at Yovel?
- When is the best time to give a person a hand (tzedakah)? What is the example from a load on a donkey?
- Why does it say “and you shall Fear Hashem,” regarding the prohibition against taking interest?
- Why is the fact of redemption from Egypt mentioned in connection with interest?
- What reason is mentioned here for giving us the land of Eretz Yisroel?
- How does the Torah compare living in Eretz Yisroel to leaving the
land?
- What must we avoid in the employment of a Jewish servant?
- What is prohibited when selling a Jewish servant?
- What reason does the Torah give for the above prohibitions?
- Then how can Jews in Eretz Yisroel get servants for heavy work?
- Can a Jew employ a Canaanite person? Why? A son of a Canaanite?
- In posuk 47 the Torah
describes a rich person and a poor one. Why are they so?
- Which kind of a Jewish servant is it a mitzvoh to redeem? Why?
- What reason is given for the fact that a servant is freed in Yovel?
- Why is there a prohibition against idolatry at the end of this parsha? (How is it connected here?)
- Rashi tells us that the subjects here are arranged in a sequence. How?
- What kind of activity is permitted only in the Beis Hamikdash?