Halakhah su Levitico 25:13

If individuals fall from the status of free men and women and, forgetting their inherent nobility, are made into servants—“the ear that heard the words at Sinai, ‘the children of Israel are My servants’³²Lev. 25:55.—My servants, and not the servants of My servants”—and yet in spite of this he went and acquired a human master for himself³³Talmud Bavli, Kiddushin 22b. The Talmud here censures the Hebrew slave referred to in Exod. 21:6, who elects to remain a slave beyond the mandatory period. His choice shows that he has not internalized the innate freedom and dignity that attaches to being a servant of God, not of man. Rav Kook understands the return of each person to his ancestral land as the remedy for the indignity of selling oneself as a slave.—now his freedom and self-respect are returned to him. Holiness flows into our lives from the highest source, the place from which the nation’s soul suckles light and “freedom is proclaimed throughout the land to all its inhabitants.”³⁴Lev. 25:10. Inequality in landed property, which resulted from bodily and spiritual weakness and error, sapped his strength, until he was forced to sell his ancestral patrimony. Now, however, restitution comes, corresponding to the people’s status at the beginning of its journey. The original property returns to those who have suffered from the vicissitudes of life, distorting their sense of their true value: “In this Jubilee, everyone shall return to his original holdings.”³⁵Lev. 25:13.

That is that He commanded us to return all the lands to their owners in this year, and that they go out from their buyers without [payment]. And that is His, may He be blessed, saying "And in all the land of your possession, you shall grant a redemption for the land" (Leviticus 25:24). And He explained to us that this redemption be in this year; and that is His saying, "In the year of this Jubilee" (Leviticus 25:13). And Scripture has already been exacting about its commandments and explained what the law would be like for the seller and the buyer, if [the seller] wants to redeem his inheritance - that was sold - before the Jubilee year. And it explained further and said that this law is particular to the lands that are outside the city wall; and that the law of the houses built in the fields is exactly [like] the law of the orchards and gardens - since they are not built within the wall. And these are the houses of the villages (chatzerim), about which Scripture said, "it shall be considered as a field of the land" (Leviticus 25:31). And the regulations of this commandment have already been explained in Arakhin. But it too is only practiced in the Land of Israel, and at the time when Jubilee is practiced. (See Parashat Behar; Mishneh Torah, Sabbatical Year and the Jubilee 10.)

The commandment of returning land to its owners on the Jubilee: To return all the lands - whether a house, or a field, or a vineyard or orchards - to their owners without money and without a price on the Jubilee year, as it is stated (Leviticus 25:24), "And in all the land of your holding, you shall give redemption to the land." [This is] to say in all the Land of Israel, which is your holding, you shall give redemption to the land. And Scripture elucidated the matter of redemption - which is return of the land to its owner; and as it is written (Leviticus 25:13), "In this jubilee year, each man shall return to his holding."