32- B'har

בּהר - "At Mount"
Weekly parashah #32: B'har Torah: Vayikra (Leviticus) 25:1-26:2 Haftarah: Jeremiah (Yirme'yahu) 32:6-27 Greek Scriptures: Luke 21-22 (In regular years read with next parashah. In leap years read by itself.)

Leviticus 25:1

The LORD then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying,

The Hebrew Word

Har (Strong's #2022) means "a mountain". It is used 649 times in 497 verses in the Tanakh.

The Hebrew prefix "b" (b'har) is a generic prefix that serves as a preposition. Because of its generic nature this word b'har is sometimes translated as "on" the mountain, "in" the mountain, "at" the mountain, etc.

First use in Scripture

The first time har is used in Scripture is in Genesis 7:19.

Genesis 7:19

The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.

Last use in Scripture

The last time har is used in Scripture is in Malachi 1:3.

Malachi 1:2-3

"I have loved you," says the LORD. But you say, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet I have loved Jacob; but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness."

Parashah Outline

• The Sabbatic Year and Year of Yovel - Leviticus 25:1
• The Law of Redemption - Leviticus 25:23
• Poor Countrymen - Leviticus 25:35
• Redeeming a Poor Man - Leviticus 25:47
• Blessings of Obedience - Leviticus 26:1

Portraits of Messiah

Verse by Verse Notes

Other Observations

24 of the traditional 613 commandments are found in this parashah:

• 449- Do not work the land during the Shemittah (the seventh year)- Leviticus 25:4
• 450- Do not work with trees to produce fruit during the Shemittah- Leviticus 25:4
• 451- Do not reap crops that grow wild during the Shemittah in the normal manner- Leviticus 25:5
• 452- Do not gather grapes which grow wild during the Shemittah in the normal way- Leviticus 25:5
• 457- The Sanhedrin must count seven groups of seven years- Leviticus 25:8
• 459- To blow the shofar on the tenth of Tishrei to free the slaves- Leviticus 25:9
• 458- The Sanhedrin must sanctify the fiftieth year- Leviticus 25:10
• 460- Do not work the soil during the fiftieth year (Yovel)- Leviticus 25:11
• 461- Do not reap in the normal manner that which grows wild in the fiftieth year- Leviticus 25:11
• 462- Do not pick grapes which grew wild in the normal manner in the fiftieth year- Leviticus 25:11
• 562- Buy and sell according to Torah law- Leviticus 25:14
• 563- Do not overcharge or underpay for an article- Leviticus 25:14
• 133- Do not insult or harm anybody with words- Leviticus 25:17
• 464- Do not sell the land in Israel indefinitely- Leviticus 25:23
• 463- Carry out the laws of sold family properties in the Yovel year- Leviticus 25:24
• 465- Carry out the laws of houses in walled cities- Leviticus 25:29
• 466- Do not sell the fields of the Levi'im but they shall belong to Levi'im before and after the Jubilee year- Leviticus 25:34
• 592- Do not lend with interest- Leviticus 25:37
• 569- Do not have a Hebrew (slave) do menial slave labor- Leviticus 25:39
• 566- Do not sell a Hebrew (slave) as a (non-Hebrew) slave is sold- Leviticus 25:42
• 567- Do not work a Hebrew (slave) oppressively- Leviticus 25:43
• 575- Canaanite slaves must work forever unless injured in one of their limbs- Leviticus 25:46
• 568- Do not allow a non-Jew to work a Hebrew (slave) oppressively- Leviticus 25:53
• 108- Do not bow down on smooth stone- Leviticus 26:1

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497 verses that include har (Strong's #2022)

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