Preparations are well under way for the special once in seven year event that is set to take place beginning in October, at the Jewish New Year – the Shemitta year, the seventh year of the Jewish ...

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Singer Benzion Lehrer has released a new CD of guitar-based rock music on Jewish themes with songs in English and Hebrew. The debut single, Shanat Shmitta Ba'a, is quite possibly the world's first ...

However, because Shemitta is מדרבנן today, we may eat vegetables and grains that grow during Shemitta as long as they were planted before Shemitta. Again, there is MUCH more to know about the Laws of ...