Rung 1 of 8
The story
What happens, plainly.
On Mount Sinai Hashem tells Moshe: when you come into the land, the land shall keep a Sabbath for Hashem. Six years you sow your field and prune your vineyard, and in the seventh the land rests; whatever grows by itself is food for everyone, you, your servants, your hired workers, the people living with you, even the animals. After seven times seven years the shofar sounds on Yom Kippur, and the fiftieth year is the jubilee: liberty is proclaimed throughout the land and every family returns to its holding. Land may not be sold forever, because the land is Mine, says Hashem, and you are strangers living with Me; a relative may redeem it, and in the jubilee it goes back. If your brother grows poor, hold him up and lend to him without interest, and if he sells himself to you, do not work him as a slave, because the children of Israel are servants to Hashem.