The Native Americans, the Lenape, who were here in what we call New York and “sold” it to the Dutch
But the Dutch offered them things which the natives accepted but the Lenape had no concept of “ ownership “ of land. One can not own a Spirit and the land has a Spirit and therefore it could not be owned and it could not be sold.
Perhaps this was just what David was saying…. It’s simple and true in simplicity. G-d created the earth and therefore it is never the Earth that we own. We can only own what we do to and with the land.
The Native Americans, the Lenape, who were here in what we call New York and “sold” it to the Dutch
But the Dutch offered them things which the natives accepted but the Lenape had no concept of “ ownership “ of land. One can not own a Spirit and the land has a Spirit and therefore it could not be owned and it could not be sold.
Perhaps this was just what David was saying…. It’s simple and true in simplicity. G-d created the earth and therefore it is never the Earth that we own. We can only own what we do to and with the land.