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Judaism · 27 October 2026

The edge of the field

Unharvested wheat at a field’s edge.
Artistic interpretation created using artificial intelligence tools.

Leviticus instructs those harvesting a field not to reap right up to its edges or gather fallen ears. A vineyard, too, must not be stripped bare or its fallen grapes collected: what remains is left for the poor and the foreigner. The command ends with a reference to the Lord, the God of Israel.

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