Daily Talk
Given a year of free, holy abundance, what will a person try to do with it? The Rambam dismantles three instincts - to profit, to hoard, to look away - and the law of biur ties the food in your house to the food still free in the open field.
Keep Only What the Field Still Gives
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About This Talk
The social heart of the Sabbatical year: no profiteering (the sanctity clings even to the money), the law of biur (keep only what the commons still gives), and no enabling another's wrongdoing - a year-long education out of greed and into responsibility.