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Shemitah and Yovel שביעית ויובל

1The Mitzva of Shevi’itא - מצוות השביעית
  1. 1.The Mitzva of Shevi’it – Resting
  2. 2.Releasing the Produce and Its Sanctity
  3. 3.Releasing Debts
  4. 4.The Revelation of the Soul on Shabbat and in Shevi’it
  5. 5.Torah Study in Shevi’it
  6. 6.Redemption in Shevi’it
  7. 7.The Blessing of Shevi’it
  8. 8.The Logic of the Blessing
  9. 9.The Mitzva of Shevi’it by Torah Law
  10. 10.The Nation, the Land and Shevi’it
  11. 11.The Mitzva Today and in the Future
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2The Mitzva of Restingב - מצוות השביתה
  1. 1.The General Mitzva of Resting
  2. 2.Preservation and Improvement – Ukmei and Avruyei
  3. 3.The Parameters of Preserving the Tree and Preserving the Fruit
  4. 4.Sowing and Planting
  5. 5.Pruning
  6. 6.Plowing and Hoeing
  7. 7.Work on the Soil
  8. 8.Tree Work and Tree Maintenance
  9. 9.Watering, Spraying and Fertilizing
  10. 10.Non-Fruit-Bearing Trees
  11. 11.Ornamental Gardens
  12. 12.Trimming, Mowing the Lawn and Preparing the Garden for Shemita
  13. 13.A House, a Greenhouse and an Unperforated Pot
  14. 14.Pots in the Garden and in the House
  15. 15.Moving Pots
  16. 16.Tosefet Shevi’it (The Addition to Shevi’it)
  17. 17.Until When It Is Permitted to Plant and Sow Nowadays
  18. 18.A Partner in a Building Whose Garden Is Worked During Shevi’it
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3Releasing the Produceג - שמיטת הפירות
  1. 1.The Mitzva of Releasing the Produce
  2. 2.Methods of Releasing
  3. 3.The Prohibition of Reaping and Harvesting
  4. 4.The Decree of Sefiḥim
  5. 5.The Growth Stage of Shevi’it Produce
  6. 6.The Produce Subject to the Mitzvot of Shevi’it
  7. 7.Destroying Shemita Produce and Plants
  8. 8.Guarded Produce and Produce Grown Through Prohibited Work
  9. 9.Non-Jews and Shevi’it Produce
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4Shevi’it Produceד - פירות השביעית
  1. 1.Eating the Produce Without Causing Loss
  2. 2.The Law of Leftovers
  3. 3.Laws of Eating the Produce
  4. 4.Uses Other Than Eating
  5. 5.Mitzvot With Shevi’it Produce; Orla and Neta Revai
  6. 6.The Prohibition of Commerce and Permitted Sales
  7. 7.The Proceeds Take On Shevi’it Holiness
  8. 8.Further Prohibitions of Commerce
  9. 9.With Havla’a and Credit the Money Is Not Sanctified
  10. 10.Bi’ur of Shevi’it Produce
  11. 11.The Laws of Bi’ur in Practice
  12. 12.Taking Shevi’it Produce Outside the Land
  13. 13.One Suspected Regarding Shevi’it
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5Time, Place, and Personה - הזמן המקום והאדם
  1. 1.When the Mitzvot of Shevi’it and Yovel Apply
  2. 2.The Borders of Those Who Came Up From Egypt; The Law of Syria
  3. 3.The Period of the Destruction of the First Temple
  4. 4.The Period of the Second Temple
  5. 5.The Hardships of Observing Shevi’it and the Attempt to Annul It
  6. 6.The Obligation of Shevi’it After the Destruction of the Second Temple
  7. 7.Calculating the Seventh Year in Our Times
  8. 8.The Borders of the Land of Israel – Olei Mitzrayim and Olei Bavel
  9. 9.Telling a Non-Jew to Work a Jew’s Land
  10. 10.Telling a Non-Jew to Work the Non-Jew’s Field
  11. 11.The Law of Produce Grown in a Non-Jew’s Field
  12. 12.May a Jew Work in a Non-Jew’s Field?
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6Shemitat Kesafim (Release of Debts)ו - שמיטת כספים
  1. 1.The Mitzva of Shemitat Kesafim
  2. 2.The Prohibition of Refraining From Lending, and the Purpose of the Mitzva
  3. 3.The Mitzva of Lending in the Torah
  4. 4.Which Debts Are Released
  5. 5.The Enactment of the Prozbul
  6. 6.Detailed Laws of the Prozbul
  7. 7.Stringencies and Enhancements
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7The Heter Mekhiraז - היתר המכירה
  1. 1.The Need for the Heter
  2. 2.Rabbi Kook and the Heter Mekhira
  3. 3.The Basis of the Obligation of Shevi’it Nowadays
  4. 4.The Law of Fields Owned by Gentiles
  5. 5.Summary of the Heter
  6. 6.Lo Teḥanem
  7. 7.Ha’arama (Legal Circumvention)
  8. 8.The Validity of the Sale
  9. 9.Why They Did Not Permit It This Way in the Past
  10. 10.Additional Considerations
  11. 11.The Heter Today
  12. 12.The First Aspect: The Individual Farmer
  13. 13.The Second Aspect: Responsibility for the Public as a Whole
  14. 14.The Third Aspect: The State as a Whole
  15. 15.Those Who Boycott Heter Produce
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8Otzar Beit Dinח - אוצר בית דין
  1. 1.Otzar Beit Din
  2. 2.Picking and Bi’ur
  3. 3.Forbidden Melakhot
  4. 4.Vegetables in an Otzar Beit Din
  5. 5.Exporting Produce Abroad
  6. 6.Commerce
  7. 7.The Problem of Commerce and Prices
  8. 8.The Otzar Beit Din Is Not a Solution
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9Buying Produce in the Seventh Yearט - קניית פירות בשביעית
  1. 1.Heter Mekhira Produce Is Preferable
  2. 2.Produce of Non-Jews from the Land
  3. 3.Otzar Beit Din Produce
  4. 4.Hiddurim
  5. 5.Flowers and Potted Plants
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10The Mitzva of Yovelי - מצוות היובל
  1. 1.The Mitzva of Yovel
  2. 2.The Laws of Yovel and Resting in It
  3. 3.The Meaning of the Yovel
  4. 4.Yom Kippur of the Yovel
  5. 5.Selling a Field and Its Return in the Yovel
  6. 6.The Right to Redeem the Field Before the Yovel
  7. 7.Slavery and Release in the Yovel
  8. 8.The Laws of Slaves, the Law of a Convert, and One Sold to a Gentile
  9. 9.The Law Regarding a Woman
  10. 10.The Reason for the Mitzva of Slavery
  11. 11.Slavery in the Present and the Future
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11The Vision of Shevi’itיא - חזון השביעית
  1. 1.The Path to Rectification in Our Times
  2. 2.The Vision of Observing Shevi’it
  3. 3.“All Its Inhabitants Upon It”
  4. 4.Who Is Counted as Part of the Jewish People for the Law of “All Its Inhabitants”
  5. 5.Dwelling in Their Proper Arrangement
  6. 6.The Vision of Shevi’it for Other Professions
  7. 7.The Blessing in the Institution of Shevi’it
  8. 8.Preventing Crises
  9. 9.The Vision of Equality in the Yovel
  10. 10.The Light of the Yovel
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