The Seder Olam Rabbah also recognized the importance of the Jubilee and Sabbatical cycles as a long-term calendrical system, and attempted at various places to fit the Sabbatical and Jubilee years into its chronological scheme.

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This ceremony, which was mandated in Deuteronomy 31: 10-13, was held every seven years, in the year following the Shmita ( Sabbatical ) year.

The Jubilee ( Hebrew yovel יובל ) year is the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita ( Sabbatical years ), and according to Biblical regulations had a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel ; there is some debate whether it was the 49th year ( the last year of seven sabbatical cycles, referred to as the Sabbath's Sabbath ), or whether it was the following ( 50th ) year.

The biblical rules concerning Sabbatical years ( shmita ) are still observed by many religious Jews in the State of Israel, but the regulations for the Jubilee year have not been observed for many centuries.

Economist Michael Hudson maintains that the Biblical legislation of the Jubilee and Sabbatical years addressed the same problems encountered by these Babylonian kings, but the Biblical formulation of the laws presented a significant advance in justice and the rights of the people.

Furthermore, the regular rhythm of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years meant that everyone would know when the next release was due, thereby giving fairness and equity to both creditor and debtor.

Regarding the length of the cycle, three significant scholarly studies devoted to the Jubilee and Sabbatical years agree that it was 49 years, while disagreeing somewhat on the interpretation of the other issues involved.

If the Jubilee were separate from, and following the seventh Sabbatical year, then there would be two fallow years in succession.

Lefebve points out, however, that there is no support in Scripture for two voluntary fallow years in succession, even though some have misinterpreted as if this refers to a Jubilee year following a Sabbatical year, which is not the sense of the passage.

Another practical problem that would occur if the Jubilee cycle were 50 years is that, after the first cycle, the Jubilee and Sabbatical cycles would be out of phase unless the seventh Sabbatical cycle was stretched to eight years.

The Seder Olam Rabbah recognized the importance of the Jubilee and Sabbatical cycles as a long-term calendrical system, and attempted at various places to fit the Sabbatical and Jubilee years into its chronological scheme.

" Then, after putting up the Tabernacle at Shiloh, " At that moment, they started to count years for tithes, Sabbatical years, and Jubilee years.

* The economic and social significance of the Sabbath and Sabbatical years by Manfred Davidmann

It will have been 6, 000 years since then in 2239 CE, thereby initiating a spiritual Sabbatical on a global scale lasting a thousand years ( the 7th Millennium on the Hebrew Calendar ).

In the Torah, or Old Testament, every seventh year is decreed by Mosaic Law as a Sabbatical year wherein the release of all debts that are owed by members of the community is mandated, but not of " foreigners ".

Sabbatical officers are usually provided with a living allowance or stipend.

The Sabbatical Officers are: The President, Communications Officer, Welfare Officer, Education Officer and Entertainments Officer and are elected on an annual basis ; all capitated students are entitled to vote.

Sabbatical officers are usually trustees of their students ' union, in its capacity as a charity, and may also sit on or form the board of directors of the union.

Sabbatical officers ( or " sabbs ") are normally elected annually, for a one-year term, i. e. a " sabbatical year ".

Supporting the Sabbatical Officers in running the Union are Elected Officers who are elected each year to certain portfolios.

The main representatives are the three Sabbatical Officers who are also full-time paid staff members of the Union.

The rooms are named after David Kingsley OBE, the first Sabbatical Officer President of the Students ' Union during the 1950s.

Five of these positions ( General Secretary, Education, Welfare & Community, Activities & Development and Postgraduate ) are full-time positions, known as Sabbatical Officers or ' Sabbs '.

37a, 52b ); and he declared that a loan taken from an orphan was not canceled in the Sabbatical year, even if no prosbul had been made out for it ( Giṭ.

His younger contemporary Josephus speaks of the Sabbatical River ( Σαββατικον ) that he claims was called after " the sacred seventh day of the Jews " and that he locates between Arka ( in the northern Lebanon range ) and Raphanaea ( in Upper Syria ) ( War 7. 96-99 ), although according to his account it is dry for six days and flows only on Shabbat.

The seventh Sabbatical year, or forty-ninth year, is then followed by another Sabbatical year known as the Year of Jubilee wherein the release of all debts is mandated, for fellow community members and foreigners alike, and the release of all debt-slaves is also mandated.

In the third year of his reign Jehoshaphat sent out priests and Levites over the land to instruct the people in the Law (), an activity that was commanded for a Sabbatical year in Deuteronomy 31: 10-13.

The year of Shmita ( Hebrew שמיטה, literally, " release "), also called Sabbatical Year, is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the Land of Israel.

* Professor Michael Sullivan, MA ( Oxon ), PhD ( Wales ), FRSM, Director, National Centre for Public Policy and Professor of Policy Analysis in the University of Wales Swansea ; Special Adviser to the First Minister, Welsh Assembly Government ; first Sabbatical president of the Oxford University Student Union ( OUSU )

Rather than waiting for the 50th or 49th year, the Deuteronomic code requires that Hebrew slaves be liberated during their 7th year of service, as does the Covenant Code, which some textual scholars regard as pre-dating the Holiness Code ; the Book of Ezekiel, which some textual scholars also regard as earlier than the Holiness Code, refers to a year of liberty (< big > שנת דרור </ big >), during which property is returned to the original owner ( or their heirs ), but the word < big > דרור </ big > is used by Jeremiah to describe the release of slaves during the Sabbatical year, which various scholars take to imply that Ezekiel must have been referring to the sabbatical year.

His conclusion that the Jubilee was identical with the seventh Sabbatical year was followed by Lefebvre, for this as well as additional reasons.

Sabbatical is a related term for a hiatus from normal work, usually for a period of months, up to one year.

The Mishnah, the core work of the Jewish Oral Torah, sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and Sabbatical and jubilee years.

Born a " Flatlander ", Louis is best known among his friends for inventing the " Sabbatical "— going off alone in a spaceship outside the boundaries of known space until one can tolerate human company again.

Under HCI's Integrated Programme, the Sabbatical Programme is offered whereby students from Secondary 1 to 4 go on sabbatical courses for one week every term except the last ( Term 4 ).

This made it possible for Sabbat to record a demo tape called Sabbatical Demon which is Zorugelion's first studio recording with the band and also Sabbat's only official demo.

He was awarded two American Psychological Association Young Investigator awards in 1995 for articles appearing in Journal of Experimental Psychology, the 1996 Chase Memorial Award for Outstanding Young Researcher in Cognitive Science, a 1997 James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, the 2000 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Cognition and Human Learning, and a 2004 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences.

For example the Israelite Sabbatical Year has antedents in the Akkadian mesharum edicts granting periodical relief to the poor.

The Sabbatical year in which the land was to lie fallow, necessarily began at the time the winter barley and winter wheat would have been sown, in the fall.

:* Behar, on Leviticus 25 – 25: Sabbatical year, debt servitude limited

Contemporary charity is regarded as a continuation of the Biblical Maaser Ani, or poor-tithe, as well as Biblical practices, such as permitting the poor to glean the corners of a field and harvest during the Shmita ( Sabbatical year ).

Sabbatical or a sabbatical ( from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos, from Hebrew shabbat, i. e., Sabbath, literally a " ceasing ") is a rest from work, or a hiatus, often lasting from two months to a year.

Biblical scholars argue that the Jubilee is an obvious development of the Sabbatical year.