For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields. The Jubilee year is holy — the same holiness designation as the Sabbath and the festivals. The eating of what is taken directly from the fields — the spontaneous growth — is the Jubilee community's provision. The community that cannot harvest for commercial storage or sale lives from what the land gives freely, equally available to all. The Jubilee's agricultural rest is the material expression of the social leveling that the land-return provision accomplishes.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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