EXOD882 Let the land rest during the sabbatical year. Disown all that grows on your land during the seventh year, whether fruits, grains or vegetables, and allow all to take of the produce freely. Key concept: To strongly fix in our hearts and minds that Hashem created the world. The mitzvah serves to uproot the false notion that the world always existed. All who espouse such heresy about the world seek only to live their lives without any bounds or restrictions, ignoring the walls of the Torah. Accordingly, the Torah commands, “You may work your land for six years but it must rest on the seventh.” In addition, Jewish landowners must disavow ownership of all that grows from their land in the seventh year. By doing so, we are reminded that although the land yields produce year after year, it is not because the land has this power. Rather, the Creator of the Universe causes the land to give forth produce. As the land’s Creator, He is also its true owner, so He commands us to relinquish our ownership of the land’s produce every seventh year for the entire year. Another benefit from the mitzvah: We acquire the ability to forgo our rights for the sake of others, for he who gives up one of his possessions with no hope of payment is a true benefactor. In addition, the mitzvah helps to greatly strengthen faith and trust in Hashem. A person becomes used to eating the fruits of his land year after year, and when every seven years, for a whole year, he behaves as if his produce is not his and allows others to freely take it, his faith in Hashem grows tremendously. He will never acquire the trait of miserliness or suffer lack of trust in Him.