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Rosner’s Torah Talk: Parshat Behar with Rabbi Howard Finkelstein

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May 23, 2019

Rabbi Finkelstein has been the spiritual leader of Beit Tikvah of Ottawa (formerly Beth Shalom West) since August 1991. Before that he served as Rabbi in Kingston, Ontario for 12 years. Rabbi Finkelstein is the Dean of Judaic Studies at the Ottawa Jewish Community School. He was the Judaic Studies Principal at Yitzhak Rabin High School from 1995-2015.

In Parshat Behar communicates to the laws of the Sabbatical year: in a seventh year, work on the land should cease, and its produce becomes free for the taking for all.Seven Sabbatical cycles are followed by the Jubilee year, on which work on the land ceases, all servants are set free, and revert to their original owners (only in the holy land).

 

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