There is a well-known expression in the Talmud that is used to explain several concepts, one of which appears in this parashah. This week we read the sections Behar and Bechukotai (ending in the third book of the Torah, the book of Vayikra).

At the beginning of Parashat Behar, the Torah gives us the mitzvah of Shmita, which, in short, consists of counting six years during which working the land is permitted, and in the seventh year, it is prohibited. Thus, after counting seven years of Shmita (a total of 49 years), there is a Yovel year, whose laws regarding the land are the same as those of the Shmita year.

The Torah itself presents a question that the Jewish people might ask in the face of this precept: (Vayikra 25:2) "And when they say, 'What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we will not plant and we will not gather our produce?'" to which it responds (ibid, 3): "And I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall produce for three years.""

That is, the produce of the sixth year of the seven-year cycle will last for the sixth, seventh, and eighth years (until the new crop can be harvested). Furthermore, when the Jubilee year arrives, which immediately follows the Sabbatical year, the land must produce enough for four years: the sixth, seventh (Sabbath), eighth (Jubilee), and ninth, until the new crop can be harvested.

The Talmudic expression is: The Torah descends into the mind of man. That is, the Torah knows how human beings think and, insofar as it requires a person to fulfill a particular precept, it already knows what the possible difficulties are that would prevent its observance, providing the solution even before the problem arises.

From this we can clearly see how the Torah was given to humankind, designed by God to be fulfilled by human beings, with their difficulties and conflicts of life, with their virtues and flaws. Of course, as with the mitzvah of shmita, the condition is to have faith in God, to place all our burdens on Him, as the Psalmist says (Tehillim 55): "Cast all your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous stumble.".

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