Shemitah

Cultivated areas near the Kineret

With the year 5775 is initiated to sabbatical mentioned several times in the Bible. The first reference is in Exodus 23: 10-11, where it is commanded the Israelites: "Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its fruit, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and not cultivarás so that poor of thy people think that eating and sobejo eat the wild animals. Likewise shalt thou do with thy vineyard and your olive grove. "