By Anna Von Reitz
The
Shemitah is a holy mystery associated with the “Sabbath of Years”.
Every
Seventh Year in the Sacred Calendar of the Hebrews is what we farmers would call
a “fallow year”.
The
land is to lay fallow. The vinyards are to rest. People, too, are instructed to
store up for the Shemitah, so that they can rest and the poor may be taken care
of in the year without harvest.
The
last day of the Shemitah Year falls on the last day of Elul, the 29th day of the
sixth month in the Sacred Calendar.
This
last day of the Shemitah Year is called “The Day of Remission” or “The Day of
Nullification”.
