shmita


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Shmita
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, and still observed in contemporary Judaism.

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