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Post by jimmie on May 26, 2010 9:46:56 GMT -8
This is my third land sabbath. I started counting the year from when I entered (bought) my land. Does anyone know what year Isreal keeps as a land sabbath?
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Post by Questor on Apr 25, 2014 23:33:51 GMT -8
This is my third land sabbath. I started counting the year from when I entered (bought) my land. Does anyone know what year Isreal keeps as a land sabbath? Congratulations on being so observant...has G-d honored you for it yet?
Sh'mitta begins at Rosh haShanah 2014, although from what I have heard the Sh'mitta is a Shabbat for the land in Israel only. Deuteronomy 11:8-18
I've been on my land for 18 years, but mostly I raise stuff in the Greenhouse. Most of my fruit Trees are too young to harvest from...next year will be the fifth year for all of them, but the Sh'mitta will not let me harvest them. I hope my friends will do a lot of canning, or at least pick it and get to a foodbank. The Citrus have been growing in pots, and when I re-plant them, it will confuse me no end, because I am planting in essentially just large containers...our weather is too variable for Citrus at my elevation, while it grows naturally in California at all the lower elevations.
From what I have been reading It will only be the open land that needs the Shabbat...since Greenhouse soil is refreshed or replaced at planting, even potted Trees. My grapes and berries will be going to waste for me, so hopefully my friends will come and pick what they want..unless I simply put them in larger pots...they are much more manageable that way. Once they are really large, I can't reach the inner canes anyway, so letting them go naturally in the ground is a waste of water, and we are very dry here.
I hope that Abba doesn't mind since I am not depleting the soil...all of Israel seems to do it in Greenhouses as well, and they have really strict laws. On the other hand, Shabbat years do not seem to apply in some minds outside of Israel according to according to Deuteronomy 11:8-18. I understand that the last few Sh'mitta's in Israel had a lot of loss from pruning their trees on Sh'mitta with their harvests the following year, whereas those that kept the law didn't have trouble...Abba does pay attention, after all, to what we do. I will have to prune very hard this year after harvest, since my trees will be going beyond their allowed size in the garden, and next harvest will be a rest with no pruning. But I spend all of my non-greenhouse time on my studies anyway, being disabled, so it is a bit difficult to consider picking a little fruit or a few vegetables harder work than going 45 miles to buy them from someone else! As far as I can tell, the plants are already doing everything themselves, and the rest is mechanized, and on timers.
The Sh'mitta rest is as much for us as for the land...we presumably won't be doing a lot of farming, and so can pay attention to our families and studies...except there are not too many people that are farmers these days, and evidently Corporations that own and administrate huge amounts of acreage don't get affected that we know of, but the price of veggies and fruit are extreme anyway, so how can we tell except from what we grow ourselves? Or don't harvest, next spring. But if i do not water and fertilize what is growing where it should not grow, they will die anyway. In this day and age, with all the technology enabling us to artificially create good growing conditions in order to get good, wholesome, untainted food, I can tend to it all carefully and then give it away.
In Israel, though, it seems that many farmers temporarily, and in name only, transfer ownership of their land to a non-believer, get paid wages by the non-believer, and just forgo the value of the fruit which in the end, pays their wages. Then they get their land back the following year. It's legal, but is it right?
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Post by jimmie on Apr 29, 2014 14:05:29 GMT -8
The Lord God has blessed me.
Lev 25:22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
I have done that with some of my canned and frozen produce. My garden is about 1 acre. My neighbors and friends don’t like my land Sabbaths because they can’t get produce from me that year. I allow my cows and horses to graze the garden area during the land rest. I only have one peach tree, so I don’t have much experiance with fruit production.
Lev 25:4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
I view the land Sabbath as being primarily for the land, though I do benefit from it. Also I know it has an affect on pest in the garden.
I could not imagine selling my land to an unbeliever to get around the land sabbath law. I keep the land Sabbath because I love the LORD aand respect my land. I don't see why I should live any differently out side of Israel than I would in Israel.
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Post by Yedidyah on Apr 29, 2014 17:00:21 GMT -8
Shalom, It is a 7th year rest in the Land this year. Hope that helps.
Yedidyah
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