What is this Pasuk coming to add to the previous Pesukim?
Rashi: It is a La'av forbidding purchasers to retain the fields that they bought when Yovel arrives. 1
Ramban #1 and Moshav Zekenim #1 (both citing the Rambam): It is a La'av forbidding the seller or the purchaser to stipulate that he is selling or buying the field permanently. 2
Ramban #2 and Moshav Zekenim #2 (both citing the the Sifra): It is a Mitzvah to keep the Yovel among yourselves, and don't be upset about it, since the land belongs to Me and I don't want it to be sold permanently like other sales'. 3
Bava Metzi'a, 79a: The Pasuk implies that only a sale that, were it not for Yovel would be permanent, 4 goes back in the Yovel, but that if one sold the field, for example, for sixty years, the field does not go back in the Yovel. 5
See Ramban's explanation of the Pasuk.
Ramban (Ibid.): Even though the field automatically leaves the domain of the purchaser and reverts to that of the seller - irrespective of any stipulation to the contrary by either of them.
Refer also to 25:23:4:2*.
See Torah Temimah, note 115.
See Torah Temimah, note 116.
What are the connotations of "Lo Simacher li'Tzemisus"?
Rashi #1, R. Bachye, Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan: It means 'forever' - a permanent sale. 1
Rashi (in in Melachim 1,20:33 It means 'cut-off' - that one is unable to return to it.
See also Ibn Ezra.
What are the connotations of the phrase "ki Li ha'Aretz"?
Rashi: It means that one should not begrudge having to return the field, since it is not his anyway.
Seforno: It means that Eretz Yisrael is the land of Hashem. 1
Gitin, 47a: It means that the Kedushah of the Eretz Yisrael belongs to Hashem and that consequetly, a Nochri who purchases land there does not remove the obligation to take Ma'asros from its produce. 2
Seforno: And is not included in the Pasuk in Tehilim, 115:16 "ve'ha'Aretz Nasan li'Venei Adam".
See Torah Temimah, note 116.
What are the connotations of the phrase "Ki Geirim ve'Soshavim atem Imadi"?
Rashi (in Divrei Hayamim 1, 29:15): It implies that 'We have no portion, inheritance or possession in the land other than the right to sojourn in it'. 1
Ramban and R. Bachye (both citing the Sifra): It means 'Don't consider yourselves the main owners of your field; because you are with Me'. 2 3
Seforno: Refer to 35:23:3:2*.
See also Ba'al ha'Turim.
Ramban, Ibid.: Hashem is the master and we are His subjects, and it will suffice for the subjects to be like their Master. See R. Chavel's footnotes.
When the land is Mine - during the six years of the cycle, it is yours too; when it is not Mine - in the Sh'mitah See R. Bachye.
QUESTIONS ON RASHI
Rashi writes that It is a La'av; purchasers may not keep the fields when Yovel arrives. But the Pasuk is addressing the seller - "Lo Simacher"!
Refer to 25:23:1 - 3.
