Rabbi Lookstein quoted the 25th chapter of the Book of Leviticus, which is read at the beginning of Parashat Behar, as being "one of the most profound sources" for the social consciousness of religion during the Civil Rights era and that it is the Talmud that prescribes that no man is free if he does not have economic opportunity or the right to live where he chooses.
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Except in the Wilna and Warsaw editions with their modern and arbitrary divisions, this Midrash consists of six "parashiyyot" (chapters, sections; singular = "parashah") introduced by one or more proems; these chapters begin respectively at Esther i.