The beginning of Parshas Behar in 25:11 says (יובל היא) it is Yovel. The Gemara Rosh Hashana 9b (top of the Amud) Darshuns it as a Mi’ut. The Gemara says there are three conditions to Yovel. This is of course in addition to the fact that Yovel only applies when the Jewish people are in Eretz Yisrael. When Rov Yisrael are al admanasan. There are three conditions and each one is m’akeiv. First of all, you have to have a central Sanhedrin blowing Shofar, there have to be lands that are returning to their original Nachala or the current Nachala the way that Eretz Yisrael is divided and you have to have an Eved Ivri that is going free. But when Moshiach will come we have none of these three today. Even if all Jews would return to Eretz Yisrael there would be no Yovel at all.
When Moshiach will come we will have a Sanhedrin that will blow Shofar. No problem. We will have land in Eretz Yisrael that will be divided according to the Shevatim and the Batei Av. No problem. However, we will need an Eved Ivri going free on Yovel. Since slavery (avdus) today is considered inappropriate, it is not likely that there will be any avadim at all and it seems that yovel will not apply. This is because if you don’t have at least one eved ivri going free, the Rambam says that it is m’akeiv, and it is not yovel.
Rav Zilberstein in his Chashukai Chemed on Rosh Hashana 9 suggests that when Moshiach comes, we are going to have to look for one volunteer. Somebody to sell himself to be an Eved Ivri in order that Klal Yisrael, all the Jewish people are going to depend on that one volunteer who is going to sell himself as an Eved Ivri in order to be able to go free at Yovel and Klal Yisrael will then be able to have a Yovel.
Even though you are not supposed to sell yourself as an Eved, Rav Zilberstein brings raayos that for a dvar mitzvah you are allowed to because the Gemara says in the end of the third Perek of Rosh Hashana that a mamzer can have children who are not mamzeirim if he sells himself as an eved ivri and marries a shifcha. So we see that a person is allowed to sell himself as an Eved Ivri to facilitate a mitzvah. So the same thing here, zugt Rav Zilberstein; we are going to have volunteers as when Moshiach is going to come we will call out that we need a volunteer to be an Eved Ivri so that he can go free on Yovel and Klal Yisrael will have a Yovel.
As an aside I want to tell you something. When they make that announcement and they are looking for a volunteer and you will tell yourself that it is going to take a lot of mesiras nefesh. I want to tell you a secret, it won’t be so bad. This is because a person can sell himself as an Eved Ivri just days before the beginning of Yovel and on Yovel he goes free. There is a Parsha called hanaka where significant gifts are given to an Eved Ivri when he goes free. So whoever it is that volunteers, you should know that when you go out you will get your mat’nas sechara b’tzida. We are eager to see Moshiach and wait for all of this to happen.
