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field and for six years you may prune your The Torah mentions that Hashem took Bnei Yisrael out of Egypt
vineyard; and you may gather in its crop. But following the commandment prohibiting interest. What is the connection

on the seventh year a complete rest there shall between them?
be for the land, a Shabbat for Hashem; your When a person lends money with interest to his fellow it demonstrates that
field you shall not sow and your vineyard you he lacks faith, since he does not believe that Hashem will provide him
shall not prune” with his livelihood from a different source. The Exodus was symbolic of
Bnei Yisrael’s emunah in Hashem, because they followed Him trustingly
(Vayikra 25:1-4)
into the Wilderness, which was an unsown land. Whoever charges interest
lacks this fundamental emunah.

“For the Children of Israel are slaves to Me,
they are My slaves, whom I have taken out of
the land of Egypt – I am Hashem, your G-d”

(Vayikra 25:55)