ושבתם איש אל אחזתו ואיש אל משפחתו תשבו
- The possuk should have said ושבתם אחוזתו אל איש, it the property that returns to the owner (see Sifsay Chachamim)? Says the Sfas Emes (5643) רק הפי' שישוב כל איש ישראל לשורשו. What does this mean?
Many seforim note, the count of sefirah is parallel to the count of Yoval. Sefiras Haomer is a person level what the count of yovel is on a national level. Every sefirah we are perfecting ourselves until we remove the impurities within us from the משכא דחויא and our pure inside, our source is revealed. What is our שורש, where do we find it? In Torah! In his words, וזכה כ"א בחלק שיש בו בהתורה שע"ז מבקשין ותן חלקנו בתורתך. Everything has a שורש higher up and that can be seen in the Torah. ותן חלקנו בתורתך is to be able to discover our שורש in Torah. After sefirah, we receive the Torah, we are able to find our חלק in Torah. [The next words in the S.E., וזה התשובה עלמא דחירות are a kabbalistic reference beyond the scope of this elucidation.] Freedom is to have no strings attached to anything or anyone else, to be self dependent entirely. A deeper freedom is to be in touch with the real you. To be able to talk to your שורש. That is only possible by learning Torah; that is the only language your שורש understands. As the Mishna says, אין לך בן חורין אלא מי שעוסק בתורה (see Sfas Emes Ki Sesa 5654.)
The yovel year is Shavuot in effect on the world. It is through the people returning to their שורש that the ripple effect happens on the world. It must start with a ושבתם איש אל אחוזתו, for a person to return to where they are really holding. When all of Klal Yisroel is united in this avodah, בזמן שכל יושביה עליה, then everything else will go back to its source as a reflection of the avodah of Klal Yisroel.
The Torah says תעבירו שופר, why use this terminology of תעבירו, it should have have תקעו שופר? The word תעביר means to bring back, to bring back the shofar of Sinai. In his words, ולא לחנם כ' תעבירו שופר. רק שהיה מתעורר שופר של מתן תורה. ובהר סיני נתן לנו הקב"ה שנזכה מצד עצמינו לעורר תמיד הארת היום של מתן תורה בכל יובל. The shofar of yoval is a reflection of the shofar of mattan torah and during sefirah we can tap into that kol shofar.
He ends off, ואפשר ע"י מצות ספירת העומר בכוונה מתקנין החטא של ביטול שמיטין ויובלות. לכן מבקשין הרחמן יחזיר לנו עבודת בהמ"ק כשיהיה ניתקן החטא של שמיטין ויובלות. The Rishonim ask why is it only be this mitzvah we say 'הרחמן הוא יחזיר וכו? The S. E. suggests because it is through sefirah done properly that we correct our sins of not keeping shemitah and yovel which led to the golus and we pray to be able to fulfill those mitzvot properly.
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