{"id":636,"date":"2014-05-19T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=636"},"modified":"2014-05-19T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T23:03:09","slug":"bechukotai-5774","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=636","title":{"rendered":"Bechukotai (5774)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for Bechukotai 5774<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Today:B<sup>3<\/sup>P = Behar, Bechukota, Bond, Piketty to once again demonstrate timelessness of the Torah<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Going backwards. Piketty &#8212;\u00a0 <em>Capital in the Twenty-first Century<\/em>.\u00a0 Inequality rising and from people who actually don\u2019t produce anything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Krugman NYT last week: top 25 hedge managers made in 2013 twice as much as all the \u00a0\u00a0kindergarten teachers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Bond \u2013 <em>From Russia with Love <\/em>\u00a0on the way home last Friday. Kerim Bay takes Bond to some gigantic Byzantine church.\u00a0 Reminded me that the equalization of capital in the mid 20<sup>th<\/sup> century may have been a historical aberration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What does the Torah tell us about that?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Bechukotai \u2013 blessing and curses.\u00a0\u00a0 If we do not listen and follow the commandments \u2013 chaos and destruction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Behar: Sabbatical year and Jubilee year. What happens in the Jubilee year:\u00a0 property reverts to its owners of 50 yrs prior (except for a house in a walled city).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 God says \u201cThe land belongs to me.. you are transient sojourners and temporary residents dwelling with me\u201d (Ch 25, v 23)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ishbizter: \u201cGod created the Yovel so that each person could return to his place and portion allotted to him from God\u2026In the Yovel each one will recognize that that portion of his fathers was given by God\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nehama \u201cThe sovereignty of God over everything in the univser and the equal rights of every person within it to enjoy the Creator\u2019s largesse is the kenote of the Jubilee legislation..we are admonished to abide by the principles of justice and honestry, which alone should reign in the world and which should not be crowded out by man\u2019s selfish greed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Imagine what the world would be like if every 50 years we had a partial Jubilee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for Bechukotai 5774 \u00a0 \u2022 Today:B3P = Behar, Bechukota, Bond, Piketty to once again demonstrate timelessness of the Torah &nbsp; \u2022 Going backwards. Piketty &#8212;\u00a0 Capital in the Twenty-first Century.\u00a0 Inequality rising and from people who actually don\u2019t produce anything. &nbsp; \u2022 Krugman NYT last week: top 25 hedge managers made in 2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-636","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636\/revisions\/637"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}