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משך חכמה — ושבתם איש אל אחוזתו ואיש אל משפחתו

What is the peshat of "ואיש אל משפחתו תשובו" — beyond the standard derashah about freeing an eved ivri (which seems out of context)?

הפיזור בין חיי המשפחה בא ממסבות הזמן אשר מרחק אחים, זה פונה לצפון וזה לדרום לבקש טרפו ומזונו. אמנם אם ישובו איש אל אחוזתו, ישובו בתי האבות לדור במקום הורישום אבותם, ויתלקטו אנשי המשפחה אשר מכרו אחוזותיהם ונתרחקו זה מזה.

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משך חכמה

משך חכמה, בהר י״ח

Meshekh Chokhmah, Behar:18

Behar

Q — What is the peshat of "ואיש אל משפחתו תשובו" — beyond the standard derashah about freeing an eved ivri (which seems out of context)?

A — When a family sells its fields, the members scatter to seek פרנסה elsewhere; the return of lands to their original owners at the יובל forces the family back together around the ancestral fields. The pasuk teaches an additional תועלת of the יובל — the reunification of the family unit, attesting to how highly the Torah values the integrity of the משפחה.

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