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Why did the Jewish people fail to observe Shemitah despite Hashem (ה׳)'s guarantee of abundance? The shiur develops a marriage metaphor: Shemitah teaches that the land isn't ours, while Yovel represents the opposite realization—everything is ours because we're spiritually married to Hashem. This explains why land returns to original owners in Yovel and why the entire nation must be present for this collective spiritual chuppah.
Rav Zweig begins with a fundamental question: why did the Jewish people fail to observe Shemitah when Hashem (ה׳) guaranteed three years of sustenance in the sixth year? He argues that the violation wasn't agricultural work - they actually refrained from planting - but rather their inability to relinquish feelings of ownership by preventing others from freely accessing their fields during Shemitah. The shiur develops a profound marriage metaphor for understanding Yovel. Drawing on sources that identify Eretz Yisrael as the 'Beis Hashem' and entry into the land as 'chuppah' (wedding canopy), Rav Zweig explains that Shemitah is a seven-cycle process of internalizing that the land isn't ours, while Yovel represents the opposite realization - that everything is ours because we're married to Hashem and share in His possessions.
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