The Land of ISRAEL is filled with Miracles!!

Hey friends! What's up Chevra?! Did you know the Land of Israel literally keeps Shabbat just like we do? In this incredible shiur, we dive deep into the mitzvah of Shmita from Parshat Behar and discover something absolutely mind-blowing about Eretz Yisrael. We explore why the Torah specifically mentions Mount Sinai when introducing this commandment, and then unpack the revolutionary concept that the Land of Israel itself observes Shabbat through the sabbatical year. We learn about the intricate laws of Shmita, including the prohibitions of shamir (guarding produce) and ne'evad (working the land), and how during the seventh year, anyone can take from your fields because the land belongs to Hashem, not us. The discussion gets practical as we talk about how religious farmers spend their sabbatical year learning in kollel, and the extra care required when handling Shmita produce. Then we hear an absolutely incredible true story from 1951 about Moshav Kfar Chabad (Kamuse) that kept Shmita while surrounded by non-religious kibbutzim who violated it. Hashem sent a plague of locusts that destroyed every crop in the area except stopped exactly at the fence line of the religious moshav. Th