All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it. The years of sabbatical rest that were withheld from the land during the community's occupation are recovered during the exile. The cosmic accounting communicates the covenant's comprehensive justice: the rest that the land was denied is the rest the land receives, with or without the community's cooperation. The covenant's sabbatical principle is enforced one way or another.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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