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    The sabbath year (shmita; Hebrew: שמיטה, literally "release"), also called the sabbatical year or shǝvi'it (שביעית‎, literally "seventh"), or "Sabbath...
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    Sabbath (section Shmita)
    bountiful harvests to those who observe Shmita, and describes its observance as a test of religious faith. The term Shmita is translated "release" five times...
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    syndrome. Dryland farming Crop rotation No-till farming Shifting cultivation Shmita "What Is Fallow Ground: Are There Any Benefits Of Fallowing Soil". Traba...
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  • rare. Accordingly, Rashi's commentary begins with the question "What does Shmita have to do with Mount Sinai?" (?מה עניין שמיטה אצל הר סיני) The question...
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  • Sabbatical year, Shmita, every seventh year (not to be confused with the Jubilee, which is the year following seven cycles of Shmita). Among other things...
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    Deuteronomy 31:10–13, was held every seven years, in the year following the Shmita (Sabbatical) year. This ceremony was discontinued after the destruction...
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    Baqashot Jewish greetings Jewish prayer § Prayer on Shabbat Lord's Day Shmita Uposatha Other Biblical sources include: Exodus 16:22–30, Exodus 23:12,...
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    "Shabbethai" a name appearing three times in the Tanakh. The Sabbath Year or Shmita (Hebrew: שמטה, Shemittah, literally "release"), is the seventh year of the...
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    the previous six millennia. The Talmud also makes parallels between the Shmita (Sabbatical) year and the seventh millennium: For six millennia the earth...
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  • job." The concept of the sabbatical is based on the Biblical practice of shmita (sabbatical year), which is related to agriculture. According to Leviticus...
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    the cattle tithe... The 1st of Tishri is the new year for years, of the Shmita and Jubilee years, for planting and for vegetables. The 1st of Shevat is...
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    tree's third year is permitted. In the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th years of the Shmita cycle, the second tithe is observed today by a ceremony redeeming tithing...
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  • Israelite kings; the seventh day (Shabbat), month (Tishrei), year (shmita) and shmita (jubilee) all have special religious status. The Seven Laws of Noah...
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    Guilt offering High Priest of Israel Israel Jewish holidays Jubilee Orlah Shmita Tabernacle Analysis Holiness code Leviticus Rabbah Sifra Textual variants...
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    import the majority of their holiday etrogim from Israel, except during shmita when there are halachic complications in exporting the produce of Israel...
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  • referred to as 1-day and 2-day communities. Jewish calendar year 5782 - Shmita - September 7, 2021 - September 25, 2022 (Observed every seven years) Jewish...
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  • Sefer HaTemunah is that of the connection of the Sabbatical year (Hebrew: Shmita) with sephirot and the creation of more than one world. The author of Sefer...
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    Land of Israel, "no land shall be sold permanently" (Leviticus 25:23). Shmita is only observed with respect to the Land of Israel, and the observance...
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    built as an agricultural village, but to ensure a livelihood during the shmita year, industries were also established. The moshav has two bakeries including...
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    rabbis in Israel. In order to get around the Jewish legal prohibitions of shmita, in which farmland must lie fallow once every seven years, some Sephardi...
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    25:13 Babylonian Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 9a). Maimonides, Mishne Torah (Hil. Shmita ve-Yovel 10:7), in this case, rules in accordance with the Sages that the...
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    be part of biblical Israel). These include agricultural laws such as the Shmita (Sabbatical year); tithing laws such as the Maaser Rishon (Levite Tithe)...
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    'shmita' ban bypass". Haaretz. Archived from the original on July 25, 2007. Retrieved 2009-05-05. Wagner, Matthew (2007-10-24). "Rabbinate's shmita decision...
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    the Beit Shean region to be exempt from the requirements of tithing and shmita regarding produce grown there. He also did the same for the cities of Kefar...
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    permitting the poor to glean the corners of a field and harvest during the Shmita (Sabbatical year). There is relatively little statistical data on transfer...
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    Guilt offering High Priest of Israel Israel Jewish holidays Jubilee Orlah Shmita Tabernacle Analysis Holiness code Leviticus Rabbah Sifra Textual variants...
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    the crop, were taken in an alternating basis according to the seven-year shmita cycle. In years 1, 2, 4, and 5 of the cycle, second tithe was taken. In...
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    (Isa. 2:11)... R. Katina also taught, "Just as the seventh year is the Shmita year, so too does the world have one thousand years out of seven that are...
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  • shvi'it, and unless managed carefully is forbidden as a violation of the Shmita (Sabbatical Year). Some rules of kashrut are subject to different rabbinical...
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    11b–12a; Arakhin 12b; Baba Bathra 4a), Maimonides, Mishneh Torah (Hil. Shmita ve-yovel 10:3). Cf. Goldwurm, Hersh. History of the Jewish people: the Second...
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