## Rashbam on Leviticus Chapter 25

###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:1:1
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בהר סיני - קודם שהוקם אהל מועד.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
בהר סיני, before the Tabernacle had been erected.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:2:1
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ושבתה - לשון ביטול.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
ושבתה, an expression of idleness.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:3:1
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ואספת - שלא תפקיר.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
ואספת, the opposite of abandoning it.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:10:1
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ושבתם איש [אל אחזתו] - לירושתו. כמו שמפורש לפנינו שהמוכר שדה חוזר לו בחנם ביובל.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
ושבתם איש אל אחוזתו, to his ancestral heritage as has been spelled out in verse 28 and 31 respectively. Sellers of ancestral fields may repossess them in the Jubilee year without having to compensate the buyer.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:10:2
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ואיש אל משפחתו - עבד עברי חוזר חפשי ביובל.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
(2) AND EACH OF YOU SHALL RETURN TO HIS FAMILY. A Hebrew slave goes frree in the Jubilee (see vv. 40-41).


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:11:1
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נזריה - גידולי ענבים שנשרו לא תבצרו. וכן ספיחים בתבואה.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
נזיריה, freely growing grapes that have fallen off the vines must not be harvested. The same applies to grain that grew without having been planted during that year.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:12:1
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מן השדה תאכלו - ולא מן הנאסף אל הבית שאסור לאוספו.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
מן השדה תאכלו, and not anything which had been gathered into the houses by the owners of the fields which had been forbidden to have been gathered in the first place.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:16:1
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כי מספר תבואת - שעד היובל הוא מוכר לך ולא גוף הקרקע.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
כי מספר תבואות until the Jubilee year is what he is selling you, as opposed to the actual soil.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:21:1
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לשלש השנים - לפי הפשט: זריעת ששית תפרנס ששית ושביעית. ושמיני יזרעו ויאכלו מתבואת ששית עד תחלת תשיעית, שיתפרנסו מתבואה הנזרעת בשמינית.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
לשלוש שנים, according to the plain meaning of the text the seed which has been planted in the sixth year of the cycle will provide sufficient food for the sixth, seventh and eighth year. They would eat until the onset of the ninth year from that harvest. During the balance of that year they will eat from planting which took place in the eighth year.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:24:1
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גאולה תתנו לארץ - אם ירצה המוכר לפדותה לפני היובל.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
גאולה תתנו לארץ, if the seller wishes to redeem it prior to the Jubilee year.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:27:1
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והשיב את העודף - מן השנים עד היובל, שלא אכל עדיין.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
והשיב את העודף, from the years prior to the Jubilee which he had not consumed yet.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:27:2
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העודף - המעדיף תדע על שנים שאכל כבר.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
העודף, which is in excess of the years he had already possessed that land.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:33:1
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ואשר יגאל מן הלוים - כמו שנאמר: גאולת עולם תהיה ללוים, והוא ירצה לגאול ואין לו במה לגאול.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
ואשר יגאל מן הלוים, as we said in verse 32 that the Levites have a right to redeem such property for an unlimited period of time, לעולם, in the event he did not have the funds at the time of the Jubilee year or any other so-called deadline.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:33:2
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ויצא ממכר בית וגו' - כלומר: תשוב לו בחנם.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
'ויצא ממכר בית וגו, whereas houses do not fall under the Jubilee rule, houses of the Levites do, seeing they have no other ancestral heritage. They get it back without having to pay compensation to the buyer.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:34:1
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ושדה מגרש - כמפורש באלה מסעי.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
ושדה מגרש, as explained in detail in Numbers 35.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:39:1
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עבדת עבד - לרדותו בפרך כעבד כנען.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
עבודת עבד, to let him perform menial labour, as is the lot of the Canaanite slaves.


###### Rashbam on Leviticus 25:47:1
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או לעקר - שנעקר מזה המלכות רחוק מארצכם, לא תושב ולא גר ולא גוי ואזרח.

**Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:**
או לעקר, who was uprooted from that kingdom, far from your homeland. He is neither a resident stranger (someone committed to keep the Noachide laws) nor a convert to Judaism, nor a resident pagan.