32/33 Behar-Bechukotai: Day 4 (Wednesday) | Chattel Slavery in Leviticus

19 Iyar 5786 AM | 1 AVE.

Blessed are You, LORD our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us by Your Spirit and invited the nations to share in the richness of Your Word. We thank You for the people and state of Israel, including the Messiah, our First Fruits, through whom the harvest of life has begun.

Today is the thirty-second day of the Omer according to the minority Sadducean and Essene counts, which is 4 weeks and 4 days.

May the Spirit of Truth prepare my heart for the revelation of the 50th day.

11:42 AM EDT. 

Jonathan Writes:

The reading is Leviticus 25:39-26:9.

This is the link to the Daily Chumash with Rashi at Chabad.

The Daily Wisdom from the Lubavitcher Rebbe is titled "The Purpose of Reward." 

The video today is Foreign Chattel Slaves in the Bible: Leviticus 25:44-46.

Cf. Reading While Black and The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. 

Shalom.

End 3:43 PM EDT.