shmita
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[edit]shmita (plural shmitas)
- (Judaism) A sabbatical year.
- 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 739:
- The Va·ad recommends that kibbutzim observe some of the sh'mittah laws by letting one field lie fallow as the sh'mittah field, and that they give a percentage of their income to the poor, because that was the original purpose of the law.