Shmita

[DMH]

HAIFA, Israel — Many Israeli farmers have spent months preparing for a biblically mandated event that comes just once every seven years, in which fields and orchards managed by Jews in the Holy Land must lie fallow for the entire year.

It is known in Hebrew as Shmita, or the sabbatical year, and it begins Wednesday with the start of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year.

When Shmita is first mentioned in Exodus, the Torah says the crops should be for ‘the poor of your nation, and the rest for wild animals,’” JTA noted. “But given that almost all farmers in Israel get around Shmita in one way or another, walking onto a farm looking for a free lunch is ill-advised.”

Every seven years, debts are supposed to be canceled, per Deuteronomy 15:1. However, banks in Israel do not implement that provision.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/24/how-farmers-in-israel-are-preparing-for-a-rare-biblical-event-that-starts-this-week/

[Betty Buckshot]

I just read this article on WND this morning. Yes, I realize it is advertising his book, but there's some significance in events related to the Shemitah years. The 7 yr period & financial crashes. I've only quoted a few pieces from the article.



http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/shemitah-starts-at-sundown-are-you-ready/



"The Shemitah, which is literally translated as a “release” or “shaking,” was meant to be a blessing for God’s people, Cahn said. But as the people fell away from God the Shemitah manifested as judgment."



"The power to ‘wipe away nations’
When ancient Israel turned away from God, started worshiping idols and stopped keeping the Sabbath year, the blessings of Shemitah turned to judgment.
“In 586 B.C., the nation was judged and it was literally wiped away,” Cahn told CBN. “They were taken to Babylon, into captivity, for 70 years. Well, God said the reason was that for all the Shemitahs you broke now the land will rest for all the years it did not rest.
“So the Shemitah literally becomes something that not only wipes away accounts, it wipes away nations.”



"In 2001, the greatest financial crash in American history to that point happened on Elul 29, the last day of the Shemitah year. That record lasted for seven years, only to be topped by the crash of 2008, which struck on the exact same day on the Hebrew calendar, Elul 29."