Israel does not own the Land of Israel. G-d does.

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In 2004 an article I had written about Shemittah  was posted on Arutz7.  In light of an article submitted to the Permanent Forum on Forestation about Shemittah  in the 9th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues I am reposting it.


Israel does not own the Land of Israel. G-d does.

Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
This email  is L'Ilui Nishmat  Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan)  a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.  

Submitted to UN: The Shemittah Year for the Twelve Tribes of Israel in the Land of Israel

Bs"d

Submitted to: United Nations Permanent Forum on Reforestation and Clean Water -  April 28, 2010

Presented By: Indigenous People of Israel (IPO) and the Office for Israeli Constitutional Law (NGO/IPO)

The Shemittah Year  for the Twelve Tribes of Israel in the Land of Israel

Robin Ticker representing 12 Tribes and the Jewish Tribal People

The Shemittah year is a year of rest for the Land of Israel which occurs every 7 years. . The term as we know it today, "Taking a Sabbatical" originate with this Biblical commandment to the 12 Tribes of Israel to let the Land rest.  It written in the Holy Torah:

But the seventh year shall be a complete rest for the land, a Sabbath for Hashem.  Your field you shall not sow and your vineyard you shall not prune.  The after growth of your harvest you shall not reap and the grapes you had set aside for yourself you shall not pick.  It shall be a year of rest for the land.  The Sabbath produce of the land shall be yours to eat, for you, for your servants and for your laborer and for your resident who dwell with you.  And for your animal and for the beast that is in your land shall all its crop be to eat." [1]
Our Commentaries explain that in this year it is forbidden to plant, sow and harvest for ones' personal economic gain. Every farmer must make their field "hefker" which means open to all, and it is forbidden to sell ones' produce as one usually does in the other six non Sabbatical years.  In this year, the ownership of the Land returns to its Creator, the Master of the Universe. G-d has then commanded that the produce is free for the picking and it is a year of communal sharing.

More laws of the Sabbatical year are as follows. It is written in The Holy Torah:
"May there be no destitute among you, rather Hashem will surely bless you in the Land that Hashem, your G-d will give you as an inheritance, to possess it..... If there shall be a destitute person among you, any of your brethren in any of your cities, in your Land that Hashem your G-d gives you, you shall not harden your heart, or close your hand against your destitute brother. Rather you shall open your hand to him, you shall lend him his requirement, whatever is lacking to him." [2]


 From these passages we learn that in this year there shall be no poor and there is no rich since all are equal and no one is lacking.   This year has enormous environmental, political and economic ramifications.  It is binding only on the members of the 12 Tribes of Israel and those that live with them, only in the Land of Israel within the specified borders delineated in the Torah. [3]

The  12 Tribes of Israel are the indigenous people of the Land of Israel whose ancestry dates back to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob the Biblical, biological, historic and spiritual forefathers of the 12 Tribes of Israel. 

The Twelve Tribes of Israel conquered the Land of Israel in the time of Joshua a well known Biblical narrative.  With the destruction of the 1st and Second Temple, the Tribes went into exile and were dispersed throughout the world.  The descendants of the Tribe of Judah, Benjamin as well as members of the Tribe of Levi, the Levites can trace their lineage back to their ancestors from the Kingdom of Judah which today is part of what is known as Judea and Samaria. For 2000 years of exile these Tribes pray daily to return to the Land of their ancestors the Land of Israel. 

Our holidays express our souls' yearning and desire to be able to return to the days of old and once again be able to serve G-d as we did in the past.  The other 10 Tribes are known as the 10 Lost Tribes and they are from the Israelite Kingdom, and only in recent years have these lost Tribes been re surfacing among them members of the Tribe of Menashe, the Tribe of Dan, the Tiribe of Asher and other peoples who trace their ancestry to the 10 lost Tribes.
The Commandment of The Shemittah year is one that is considered perhaps the hardest commandment in the Torah to keep because it requires unfaltering faith in the Almighty that He will sustain us when we are forbidden to profit from the Land, which for many is our only source of income.

It was only with the Tribes return to their ancestral homeland in this century, was it necessary to observe the commandment of Shemittah of the Land.  Up until then, observance of Shemittah , the Sabbatical year in the Diaspora was not required. Now, after 2000 years, this commandment, once again is relevant.  It is perhaps the most mysterious commandment and attempts of implementation have created revolutionary political, economic and environmental upheavals. While many Rabbi's in Israel  have differences of opinion as per how this commandment should be observed in our time, the laws are still evolving and the goal of observing the Sabbatical Year in the spirit of the Sabbath, a time of economic and spiritual utopia, is still elusive and yet to be realized. 

In the Torah it states that the key to Peace, Prosperity, and Security lies with this commandment.  It is in this year that the ownership of the Land is very clear.  By keeping Shemittah, the Israelite demonstrates quite dramatically to himself and to the entire World what G-d says "Ki Li Kol Haaretz"    which means
"the entire Land belongs to Me, G-d,  and it is I who determines who will inherit it."[4]

Thank you.

Robin Ticker

Posted on Shemitttahrediscovered.blogspot.com on 13 day of Iyar 5770, 28^th day of the Omer Malchut Shebenetach

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[1] The Delineated Boundaries are specified  in the Torah in the Book of Numbers, Chapter 34.  The Commandment of the Sabbatical year is in the Book of Leviticus Chapter 25 starting Verse 4. 

[2]  Deuteronomy Chapter 15

[3] Numbers Chapter 34

[4] First Rashi in Genesis Chapter 1

 

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
This email  is L'Ilui Nishmat  Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan)  a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.  

April 25th NYC Rally - Highlight Videos - all great. I especially loved Rev Faukner an African American Minister

UCI: Highlights from the April 25, NYC Rally.

 

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137223

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
This email  is L'Ilui Nishmat  Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan)  a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.  

Sholom Rubashkin Tehillim 20;51;141 tomorrow @1 and watch YOU TUBE Please don't ignore and forward

bs"d  Also say Tehillim tomorrow @ 1 for Mr. Rubashkin who has been incarcerated.   Please say the following perakim: 20; 51; 141.

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From: Sara Lehmann <saralehmann21@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:48 PM
Subject: FW: Sholom Rubashkin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1JCv4bYyWE

Nat Lewin said if this video on youtube about rubashkin gets 100,000
views it will help Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin very much.

I am sure that some of you may have already received this and hopefully viewed it, but I am sending it anyway with the request that you view it continue to forward it.

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
This email  is L'Ilui Nishmat  Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan)  a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.  

A Shanda! Har Habayit is not on the Jewish Heritage List? Help MK Zevulen Orlev with Eitan Cable change that. Thanks Sign Petition and forward...

bs"d Please sign petition if you haven't already and  forward to your lists!  We would like to reach 10,000.   Thanks!

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From: Yosef Rabin <613yos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:15 AM
Subject: Fwd: Operation Heritage: Goal 10,000 one week from today!
To: Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com>

We have a very big opportunity to make an impact, it seems Zevulen Orlev together with  Eitan Cabel are restarting discussions regarding the Heritage List. Har HaBayit (Temple Mount) has not yet been added to the list, which is a travesty. We have someone on the inside Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander who is in contact with MK Orlev and would like to bring him a petition by next week with no less than 10,000 signatures on it. Please urge all your lists to sign and actively encourage everyone they know to sign the petition as well. Perhaps we can even exceed the 10,000 mark. The petition is in Hebrew and English and should therefore be sent out to Hebrew and English lists. We have a very good opportunity to the Har an issue, please help in this regard.

Here is a link to the petition which at this time is standing at 871    http://www.gopetition.com/online/35455/signatures.html

Thank you for you help,

Yosef Rabin

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Open Letter to US Jewry:

The battle for the future of Jerusalem has begun! While many people are beginning to cry out against the division of Jerusalem and against and a freeze on Jewish construction, it appears as if the heart and center has been forgotten. Like a human body if you kill the heart, the rest of the body will quickly wither away, and so it is with the Temple Mount and the Land of Israel.

The Holy Temple Mount is the heart of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, and as the old saying goes "He who controls the Mount shall control Jerusalem". If we have no right to the Mount than we certainly have no right to communities like Ramat Shlomo. If we have no right to the Mount than we do not even have a right to the Western Wall, for the sanctity of the wall derives from the Mount. In fact the Arabs have already begun to call the Western Wall the "Al Buraq Wall" or the wall to which Mohamed allegedly tied his horse. This situation has led to a disastrous situation.

From the very place that the Temple priests brought the holy sacrifices, Arabs now gather for picnics. From the very place that the Levites sang the sweet praises of the Lord, the Muslim leaders call for the death of our people and the destruction of our State. The place of Oleh Regel (pilgrimage) has become the place for Kadur Regel (soccer) by Arab children. The Arabs for years now have been continuing to erase any trace of the first and second Temples. They have turned the Temple Mount into one gigantic outdoor Mosque and from there they wage their unrelenting battle against us. In addition Jews are denied basic rights on the mount and are even arrested for crimes like moving lips or closing eyes in prayer. The Arabs properly understand the symbolism that goes along with controlling the Temple Mount.

The Book of Haggai states, "Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying: Is this the time for you to dwell in paneled houses, while this house sits in ruins?" As Israel capitulates to America and enforces a building freeze in Judea and Samaria and now Jerusalem the words from Haggai ring loudly in our ears! Since the liberation of the Temple Mount in 1967 there has been an ironclad freeze on anything Jewish on the Mount. No Jewish prayer or study and certainly no building. By abandoning the Temple Mount to the enemy, we essentially handed them the keys to kingdom. If a Jew may not pray or have free access to the very place where his Temple stood, then what possible right could he have to even Tel Aviv, which is but one hundred years old. The world must also understand that if the radical Muslims can take over the ancient and sacred Mount in Jerusalem, they will have no problem usurping any other capital they like, including Washington DC.

Everyday more and more decrees are created by the Israeli police making it more and more difficult for Temple Mount activists to work. Activists are regularly harassed by police and special security agents. Emails, phones and websites are carefully and constantly watched; this very letter will most likely be read and analyzed. Freedom of speech for Temple Mount activists simply does not exist and many lay leaders and rabbis, are simply afraid to get involved for fear of persecution. I have heard this from top rabbis and leaders in Israel. If Jews outside of Israel do not begin to protest this, it will not end and will even get worse. We urgently need Jews and lovers of Israel to help us fight this battle; we must save the Temple Mount and Jerusalem along with her! The Prophet Isaiah states "For the Sake of Zion is will not be still, for the Sake of Jerusalem I will not be quite", words are not enough we need concrete action, now more than ever! We must create serious facts on the ground, and if we cannot do that, we will lose it!

HOW MUCH LONGER WILL YOU STAND BY AND WATCH THIS PERSECUTION IN SILENCE???

Please urge your congregations, family and friends to protest this injustice loudly! The preservation of the Temple Mount and Jerusalem is the responsibility of every Jew across the world; no one can abstain from this responsibility. If we lose the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, the future generation will not forgive us and neither will generations of the long and bitter 2,000 year exile who never relinquished the hope that they might one day return. The Psalms states "Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, may all those that love thee prosper"; this is both a command and a guarantee. The command is to pray for Jerusalem and the guarantee is that those who do so will prosper.

Come and prosper with us!

Yosef Rabin
Spokesman to North America
HaTenua LeChinun HaMikdash (Organization for Renewal of the Temple)

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
This email  is L'Ilui Nishmat  Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan)  a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.