Sabbatical Year

[visionary]

Sabbatical Year or what is also known as the "Sabbath of rest" and the "year of rest"

Lev 25:4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. 8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

Lev 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. 12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Lev 25:13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. 14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: 15 According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: 16
According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.


Lev 25:17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God. 18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19
And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

Lev 25:20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store. 23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Lev 25:24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession. 28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

Lev 25:29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile. 32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. 33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

Lev 25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession. 35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. 36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. 38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

Lev 25:39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

Lev 25:44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

Lev 25:47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. 51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52
And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

Lev 25:53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him. 55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

God promises those who trust and obey Him that the sixth year will provide enough for three years. He will have provided enough for us to live off on the seventh year, and indeed enough for three more years. I have read that some have calculated that 2016 is the Sabbatical Year. Given that many are saying that we face a economic collapse, of anywhere from one to three years, are prepared?

 

[visionary]

Sabbatical 701 BC
Jubilee 700 BC 2 KIngs 19:29, Is ch 37, 2 Chron ch 32.

1.) Sabbatical Week
Sabbatical 694 BC
Sabbatical 687 Bc
Sabbatical 680 BC
Sabbatical 673 BC
Sabbatical 666 BC
Sabbatical 659 BC
Sabbatical 652 BC
Jubilee 651 BC

2.) Sabbatical Week
Sabbatical 645 BC
Sabbatical 638 BC
Sabbatical 631 BC
Sabbatical 624 BC
Sabbatical 617 BC
Sabbatical 610 BC
Sabbatical 603 BC
Jubilee 602 BC

3.) Sabbatical Weeks
Sabbatical 596 BC
Sabbatical 589 BC
Sabbatical 582 BC
Sabbatical 575 BC
Sabbatical 568 BC
Sabbatical 561 BC
Sabbatical 554 BC
Jubilee 553 BC

4.) Sabbatical Week
Sabbatical 547 BC
Sabbatical 540 BC
Sabbatical 533 BC
Sabbatical 526 BC
Sabbatical 519 BC
Sabbatical 512 BC
Sabbatical 505 BC
Jubilee 504 BC

5.) Sabbatical Week
Sabbatical 498 BC
Sabbatical 491 BC
Sabbatical 484 BC
Sabbatical 477 BC
Sabbatical 460 BC
Sabbatical 453 BC
Sabbatical 446 BC
Jubilee 447 BC

Yet some say
Sabbatical 456 BC Neh 8:18

 

[Dave-W]

You started your quote of Lev 25 one verse too late:

3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop

Your calculation does not allow for 6 years of sowing and growing following the Jubilee year. Otherwise your Jubilee years would all end in 0.

650
600
550
500

etc.

 

[visionary]

You started your quote of Lev 25 one verse too late:

3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop

Your calculation does not allow for 6 years of sowing and growing following the Jubilee year. Otherwise your Jubilee years would all end in 0.

650
600
550
500

etc.

The 50th year is the start of the first year of the next cycle.

 

[visionary]

701 BC would have had 14 Jubilee til Yeshua's time... give or take..
if 701 is an accurate number to tie the Jubilee to, then we are due for another Jubilee in

6.) Jubilee 398 BC
7.) Jubilee 349 BC
8.) Jubilee 300 BC
9.) Jubilee 261 BC
10.) Jubilee 212 BC
11.) Jubilee 163 BC
12.) Jubilee 114 BC
13.) Jubilee 15 BC
14.) Jubilee 33 AD - Yeshua died
and 40 Jubilees later we are at 1993. The Next Jubilee will be 2042.

1992, 1999, 2006, 2013 would have been the 7th year rest, and the next one is 2020... if my calculations are right.

 

[visionary]

For those interested in reading about the Sabbatical Sighted Moon | Remembering Sabbatical Years – Book

 

[Dave-W]

The 50th year is the start of the first year of the next cycle.

But that only gives 5 years of growing, not 6 as required by Torah. Lev 25.3

 

[visionary]

701 BC - 694 = 7 years... 6 of those are growing years.

 

[sevengreenbeans]

This isn't my position, just helping to clarify...
This is the count that Visionary is trying to show:
694 to 695
695 to 696
696 to 697
697 to 698
698 to 699
699 to 700
700 to 701

 

[Dave-W]

The 50th year is the start of the first year of the next cycle.

Or the last year of the old cycle. At any rate it is NOT a growth year. So if your Jubilee is year 1 of the new cycle you have this:

1 - Jubilee (no growth)
2 - growth
3 - growth
4 - growth
5 - growth
6 - growth
7 - sabbath year

there are only 5 growth years (2-6) and not 6 as required by Torah.

 

[visionary]

Or the last year of the old cycle. At any rate it is NOT a growth year. So if your Jubilee is year 1 of the new cycle you have this:

1 - Jubilee (no growth)
2 - growth
3 - growth
4 - growth
5 - growth
6 - growth
7 - sabbath year

there are only 5 growth years (2-6) and not 6 as required by Torah.

so how would you count it?

 

[Dave-W]

so how would you count it?

1 - growth
2 - growth
3 - growth
4 - growth
5 - growth
6 - growth
7 - sabbath year (no growth)

.....

42 - growth
44 - growth
45 - growth
46 - growth
47 - growth
48 - growth
49 - sabbath year (no growth)
50 - Jubilee (no growth)

Then the 50 year cycle starts over again with year 1.

 

[visionary]

Ahhhhh... . it was calculated as I indicated.

There is a difference of opinion in the Talmud as to whether the jubilee year was included in or excluded from the forty-nine years of the seven cycles. The majority of rabbis hold that the jubilee year was an intercalation, and followed the seventh Sabbatical year, making two fallow years in succession.After both had passed, the next cycle began. They adduce this theory from the plain words of the Law to "hallow the fiftieth year," and also from the assurance of God's promise of a yield in the sixth year sufficient for maintenance during the following three years, "until the ninth year, until her fruits come in" (Lev. xxv. 22), which, they say, refers to the jubilee year. Judah ha-Nasi, however, contends that the jubilee year was identical with the seventh Sabbatical year (R. H. 9a; Giṭ. 36a; comp. Rashi ad loc.). The opinion of the Geonim and of later authorities generally prevails, that the jubilee, when in force during the period of the First Temple, was intercalated, but that in the time of the Second Temple, when the jubilee was observed only "nominally," it coincided with the seventh Sabbatical year. In post-exilic bṭimes the jubilee was entirely ignored, though the strict observance of the shemiṭṭah was steadily insisted upon. This, however, is only according to a rabbinical enactment (Tos. to Giṭ. 36a, s.v. "Bizeman"), as by the Mosaic law, according to R. Judah, shemiṭṭah is dependent on the jubilee and ceases to exist when there is no jubilee (Giṭ. l.c. and Rashi ad loc.).

That the Sabbatical year was observed during the existence of the Second Temple is evident from the history of the Maccabees (I Macc. vi. 51, 55). The Mishnah includes in the examination of witnesses questions as to dates, in giving which there must be specified the Sabbatical year, the year, month, week, day, and hour (Sanh. v. 1). SABBATICAL YEAR AND JUBILEE - JewishEncyclopedia.com

 

[Dave-W]

I get that but they may have gotten it WRONG. If you include the Jubilee year as a sabbath year you only have a 49 year cycle but Torah indicates a 50 year cycle:

Leviticus 25:10 You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

And as I posted before - making year 50 of the old cycle to also be year 1 of the new cycle leaves you a year short in the number of growing years.

 

[Hoshiyya]

Ah great, calendar speculation, how productive.
Either you agree with the rabbis on calendrical issues, or be doomed to contention, isolation and ultimately feelings of arrogance and superiority and uniqueness. On no issue is the NEED for the rabbis more clear than the calendrical issue.

I know a guy who has literally never had fellowship with anyone even though he's kept shabbat and his sacred calendar for years - it is because his version of shabbat and the calendar is some kind of "Enochian" variant known only to him. And he can argue the topic day in day out, without benefiting himself or anyone else, without convincing anyone, or being able to justify his views in a meaningful way.

 

[visionary]

I get that but they may have gotten it WRONG. If you include the Jubilee year as a sabbath year you only have a 49 year cycle but Torah indicates a 50 year cycle:

Leviticus 25:10 You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

And as I posted before - making year 50 of the old cycle to also be year 1 of the new cycle leaves you a year short in the number of growing years.

I don't think either you or I are having any disagreement with the consecrating of the fiftieth year as a Jubilee. It is the count. Does the Jubilee also start the count towards the next seven years.

 

[visionary]

Side Note....

The Liberty Bell, initially cast in 1752 A.D., is an iconic symbol of American independence. The bell's first inscribed line quotes part of the verse found in the KJB version of Lev 25:10 which mentions the jubilee. The bell rang on July 8th, 1776 to summon the people to hear the Declaration of Independence.

Unfortunately, the United States has not obeyed the Jubilee Law. It is widely believed the bell received its crack in 1835 A.D. while being rung. The crack, which occurred roughly fifty years after America's War of Independence ended in 1783, was severe enough to cause the bell never to ring again.

 

[visionary]

There is an opinion in the Talmud that the Jubilee is not an “in-between-cycles year,” but rather that it is the first of the next 49-year cycle, and thus not designating it would not impact the calculation of the Sabbatical cycles. This opinion also maintains that the Sages never instituted the Jubilee year as a commemoration. When is the next Jubilee year? - Questions & Answers

 

[Hoshiyya]

Does the Jubilee also start the count towards the next seven years.

Why would you ask ?
Is he a rabbi, carrying on the ancient understanding of things?
Or do you really care about our opinions, which we invent here and now ?
I can give opinions on just about anything, but then what ?
How can I possibly hope to be accurate, if I'm just making things up and using "common sense" (as I personally, subjectively understand it) ?

How to count Jubilees is beyond basic. The Jews did it the right way for MILLENNIA, and haven't changed the way it is to be done. I just don't understand why one would even ask the question.

Why do you value the ad hoc speculation of people on this forum (like me), rather than the ancient traditions of the chosen people ?

 

[NannaNae]

701 BC would have had 14 Jubilee til Yeshua's time... give or take..
if 701 is an accurate number to tie the Jubilee to, then we are due for another Jubilee in

6.) Jubilee 398 BC
7.) Jubilee 349 BC
8.) Jubilee 300 BC
9.) Jubilee 261 BC
10.) Jubilee 212 BC
11.) Jubilee 163 BC
12.) Jubilee 114 BC
13.) Jubilee 15 BC
14.) Jubilee 33 AD - Yeshua died
and 40 Jubilees later we are at 1993. The Next Jubilee will be 2042.

1992, 1999, 2006, 2013 would have been the 7th year rest, and the next one is 2020... if my calculations are right.

I know this is weird but it has happened to us for many years..
but this year is OUR families Sabbath year.. I didn't know it was also around the biblical one..
every 7 years my hubby get laid off or sick and or has to have a surgery or whatever and spend 9 months to 1 year at home.. we used to fight it and it happens every 7 like clock work.... but we now prepare for it and know it is coming.. even if whole corperations have to get shut down stop his job that is what happens,
I think ours ends this tabernacles..

yes so ours is usually fall 2013 to fall 2014 but he was allowed to work a little longer this time because he worked through winter .. .. is what ours is usually on. though this time it started around passover to hopefully tabernacles. ( but it oh no it might go into passover ).
I have no idea if the biblical Sabbath goes from roshashanna to roshashanna or passover to passover .. but our sure usually does the first one .
after so many years you just stop trying to fight it..
we hope he gets a job by tabernacles or gets a sell at the company that wants him to be a rep for them ! but so far no sales during Sabbath.( just started for them this last week and is talking to friends on the computer from home looking for reps and such not relly working compared to his normal working.. and not getting paid either.