The next Shmita falls in the Jewish year 5782,
which begins on September 7, 2021.
Just as the Bible calls for us to work six days and rest on the seventh, God’s Word also
directs us to work the land six days and let it rest in the seventh. After 49 years, seven
cycles of seven, the 50th is Yovel – the Jubilee year!
In the Shmita year:
★ Debts are to be forgiven
★ Agricultural lands to lie fallow
★ Private land holdings to become open to the commons
★ Staples such as food storage and eternal harvests to be freely
redistributed and accessible to all.
Leviticus 25
Complete Jewish Bible
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“‘You are to count seven Shabbats of years, seven times seven years, that is, forty-nine years.
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Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom-Kippur, you are to sound a blast on the shofar; you are to sound the shofar all through your land;
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and you are to consecrate the fiftieth year, proclaiming freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a yovel for you; you will return everyone to the land he owns, and everyone is to return to his family.
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That fiftieth year will be a yovel for you; in that year you are not to sow, harvest what grows by itself or gather the grapes of untended vines;
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because it is a yovel. It will be holy for you; whatever the fields produce will be food for all of you.
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In this year of yovel, every one of you is to return to the land he owns.
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