Rabbi Benny’s Hilarious Torah Thought: The One With the Yiddish Speaker

Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Behar. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why does the Torah first command us to agriculturally rest on the seventh sabbatical year, only afterwards telling us about working the land during the preceding six years? Shouldn’t the order have been reversed?

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