Leviticus 25 introduces the sabbatical year and the Jubilee. The Targum Jonathan addresses the most obvious objection: if the land rests every seventh year, what will people eat?
God's answer in the Targum goes beyond the Hebrew: "I will command My blessing upon you from My treasures of goodness, which are in the heaven of My Presence, in the sixth year, and it will create produce that will suffice for three years." The Hebrew says the blessing will come "in the sixth year." The Targum locates the source: heavenly treasuries. The miracle is not just agricultural. It descends from a specific divine storehouse.
The Jubilee—every fiftieth year—brought radical economic reset. All sold land returned to its original owner. All Israelite slaves went free. The Targum names it Jubela and adds the sound of the "trumpet of Liberty" that proclaimed it on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). The land "shall not be sold absolutely, for the land is Mine; for you are sojourners and guests with Me." The Targum renders Israel's relationship to the Holy Land as a divine lease, not ownership.
The anti-usury laws get personal addresses: "My people of the house of Israel, you shall not take usuries or remunerations." The phrase "My people" is a Targum addition, turning a legal prohibition into a direct plea from God to God's children.
If an Israelite sells himself to a non-Israelite, the Targum specifies the buyer as "the uncircumcised stranger" or "the stock of a strange religion." Redemption is mandatory: "forthwith redemption shall be his." A brother, uncle, cousin, or the whole congregation may redeem him. No Israelite can permanently belong to a foreigner, "for the sons of Israel are Mine."
The Jubilee system assumed that economies could be reset, that debt was temporary, and that freedom was the default state. The Targum frames all of it as a consequence of the Exodus: "I brought you out redeemed from the land of Egypt."