Shmita

• abstract: The sabbath year (shmita , literally "release") also called the sabbatical year or sheviit (, literally "seventh") is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the Land of Israel,This article incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), a publication now in the public domain. Sabbatical year - every seventh year, during which the land, according to the law of Moses, had to remain uncultivated (Lev.

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