1)

What is this Pasuk coming to add to the previous Pesukim?

1.

Rashi: It is a La'av forbidding purchasers to retain the fields that they bought when Yovel arrives. 1

2.

Ramban #1 and Moshav Zekenim #1 (both citing the Rambam): It is a La'av forbidding the seller or the purchaser to stipulate that he is selling or buying the field permanently. 2

3.

Ramban #2 and Moshav Zekenim #2 (both citing the the Sifra): It is a Mitzvah to keep the Yovel among yourselves, and don't be upset about it, since the land belongs to Me and I don't want it to be sold permanently like other sales'. 3

4.

Bava Metzi'a, 79a: The Pasuk implies that only a sale that, were it not for Yovel would be permanent, 4 goes back in the Yovel, but that if one sold the field, for example, for sixty years, the field does not go back in the Yovel. 5


1

See Ramban's explanation of the Pasuk.

2

Ramban (Ibid.): Even though the field automatically leaves the domain of the purchaser and reverts to that of the seller - irrespective of any stipulation to the contrary by either of them.

3

Refer also to 25:23:4:2*.

4

See Torah Temimah, note 115.

5

See Torah Temimah, note 116.

2)

What are the connotations of "Lo Simacher li'Tzemisus"?

1.

Rashi, Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan: It is a prohibition against selling one's field permanently. 1


1

See also Ibn Ezra.

3)

What are the connotations of the phrase "ki Li ha'Aretz"?

1.

Rashi: It means that one should not begrudge having to return the field, since it is not his anyway.

2.

Seforno: It means that Eretz Yisrael is the land of Hashem. 1

3.

Gitin, 47a: It means that the Kedushah of the Eretz Yisrael belongs to Hashem and that consequetly, a Nochri who purchases land there does not remove the obligation to take Ma'asros from its produce. 2


1

Seforno: And is not included in the Pasuk in Tehilim, 115:16 "ve'ha'Aretz Nasan li'Venei Adam".

2

See Torah Temimah, note 116.

4)

What are the connotations of the phrase "Ki Geirim ve'Soshavim atem Imadi"?

1.

Rashi (in Divrei Hayamim 1, 29:15): It implies that we have no portion, inheritance or possession in the land other than the right to sojourn in it. 1

2.

Ramban (citing the Sifra): It means 'Don't consider yourselves the main owners of your field; because you are with Me'. 2

3.

Seforno: Refer to 35:23:3:2*.


1

See also Ba'al ha'Turim.

2

Ramban, Ibid.: Hashem is the master and we are His subjects, and it will suffice for the subjects to be like their Master (See R. Chavel's footnotes).

QUESTIONS ON RASHI

5)

Rashi writes that It is a La'av; purchasers may not keep the fields when Yovel arrives. But the Pasuk is addressing the seller ? "Lo Simacher"!

1.

Refer to 25:23:1 - 3.

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