Our parasha starts off by explaining the year of the yovel, sometimes
translated as Jubilee, but I like the way Everett Fox renders it:
Homebringing. God’s realm is holy and good, and Shabbat, Yom Kippur, the
Jubilee, the Tabernacle, the Messiah, these are all part of his plan for
the holy realm to intercept the earth, as it was in Eden.
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