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Sabbatical Year

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Sabbatical Year (Heb., shemittah). The year in which, according to Jewish law, the land lies fallow. According to Exodus 23. 10–11 and Deuteronomy 15. 1–11 on the Sabbatical Year, all agricultural work must be suspended and all debts remitted. The seventh Sabbatical Year (or possibly the year after the close of seven Sabbatical cycles) was designated the Jubilee Year.

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Sabbatical Year

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Sabbatical Year. The one year in seven which the OT ordered to be observed as a ‘Sabbath’, i.e. requiring the land to remain fallow and debtors and Israelite slaves to be freed. See also JUBILEE, YEAR OF.

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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Sabbatical Year." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Sabbatical Year." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-SabbaticalYear.html

E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Sabbatical Year." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-SabbaticalYear.html

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	Teachers should have a sabbatical year every seven, says union.(News) Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 2/11/2008
	The faith to do nothing.(Parshah Behar)(Shmittah, Sabbatical Year) Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA); 5/16/2008
	15-year sabbatical; MAN OF THE PEOPLE.(Features) Newspaper article from: The People (London, England); 11/12/2006