Divide that by 7 gives 824 with a remainder of 1, indicating one year past the last shemittah. The next year (that begins with Rosh Hashanah) is 5769. For example, if the Jewish year is 5768, you divide by 7 to get 824 with no remainder, so it's a Sabbatical year. To determine the shemittah year, take the current Jewish year and divide by seven if there is no remainder, it is a shemittah year otherwise it is not. "For the poor shall never cease from the land, therefore I command you saying, open your hand wide to your poor brother" (Deut 15:11). But there will be no poor among you for the LORD will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess. Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD'S release has been proclaimed. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. 25:20-21, 23.)ģ) Parashat Re'eh: "At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And the land will not be sold in permanence, for Mine is the land, and your are sojourners and residents with Me." (Lev. ".And should you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year? We will not be planting nor gather our produce!' I will command My blessing in the sixth year, and it will make produce for the three years. You shall not reap the growth of your harvest nor gather in the grapes of yield the earth shall have a Sabbatical." (Lev. And in the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbatical, a Sabbath to HaShem you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. Six years shall you sow your field, and six years shall you prune your vineyard, and gather its produce. 23:9-11.)Ģ) Parashat Behar: "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: When you come in to the land which I gave to you, the land shall rest a Sabbath to HaShem. So shall you do to your vineyard and your olive trees." (Ex. And in the seventh year release it and leave it alone, so that the poor of your people may eat and what is left shall be left to the beast of the field. Six years shall you sow your land and gather in its produce.
There are three main places in the Torah where shemitta is mentioned:ġ) Parashat Mishpatim: "Do not oppress the stranger, for you know the soul of the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. The Jubilee year ("Yovel") then follows the completion of the 49-year cycle. On this cycle, the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, 35th, 42nd, and 49th years were shemittah. It falls every 7th year in a 49-year cycle that operated during biblical times. The laws of shemittah apply to the land of Israel - and to farmers. Sabbatical Year 7th year in the cycle to leave land fallow. Extra blessing given during Sabbath observance. Note that this term is often used to refer to the last meal of the Sabbath day (i.e., the afternoon meal (after mincha prayers), though technically this third meal is called seudah shlishit. The three traditional meals of the Sabbath (on Friday evening, on Saturday morning (kiddush) and the Saturday afternoon meal). The informal gathering for conversation and community after Sabbath services. A Rabbinic religious legal fiction of drawing a symbolic line or "fence" around an area so that the area may be considered as one's "own yard," thus permitting the carrying of things within it without fear of desecrating the Sabbath.
5:6-21) requires the sanctification of this day. One of the aseret hadibrot, or Ten Commandments (Ex. One who traditionally observes the legal requirements for Shabbat is called Shomer Shabbat. Observed from sunset Friday evening to sundown Saturday evening, marked by rest, worship, and study. He was later excommunicated from the Jewish community because of his eccentric views. (Indeed, one of the things Sabbatai did to "convince" the Jews that he was the Messiah was to pronounce the Sacred Name of God, something forbidden to do except by the High Priest).
At the age of forty, he was forced by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV to convert to Islam, and many of his followers converted with him, thereby defaming the Name of God. Shabbetai was the founder of the Jewish "Sabbatean" movement, influenced by the esotericism of Rabbi Isaac Luria. A late medieval Kabbalist (1626-1676) and false Messiah. שַׁבְּתַי צְבִי Also spelled "Shabbetai Zevi," "Sabbatai Sevi," and so on.
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