yovel

This law is called shmitah, and it measures cycles of seven: every seventh year the land rests, and after seven cycles of seven years, we celebrate a yovel, a jubilee year.

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Shmitah and yovel are so important that the ancient midrash Pesikta Rabbati records they are among the seven commandments that illuminate the world.

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As for economic justice for the poor, consider the yovel, the policy that no family can permenantly lose their ancestoral property, regardless of whether this offends capitalist and libertarian theory Lev.

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The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical (shmita) and jubilee (yovel) years.

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Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 3:4 says that the shofar blasts on Yom Kippur of the yovel year have the same pattern and same blessings malchuyot, zichronot, shofarot as on Rosh Hashanah.

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(Leviticus 25:9) = in the 50th (yovel) year, to announce the release of all slaves

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Lastly, from an ANE perspective, it seems that shmita and dror/yovel were practiced by assyrian kings at times determined by the king.

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(Leviticus 25:9) = in the 50th (yovel) year, to announce the release of all slaves

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The yovel count is much more complicated, going on and off through different periods of history.

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He talks about seven 7000 year cycles (I believe he says we're in number 6) like shemittah and yovel.

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