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Evidence that Yovel was ever observed?
The Talmud, in Arachin 12b, quotes a baraita saying that Yovel was observed seventeen times:
שבעה עשר יובלות מנו ישראל משנכנסו לארץ ועד שיצאו
Seventeen jubilee [cycles] did Israel count from the time
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Why is the Jubilee year not being kept anymore?
Rambam Hilchos shmitta Halacha 8 (below) says that Yovel is not in effect unless all twelve tribes are on their land. That is why we stopped the yovel once the tribes of Reuven, Gad, and the part of ...
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Did Hillel get rid of the year of Jubilee?
Truth is priceless, lies are free. The N.T. loves to paint Jews as nasty, and poor unsuspecting readers buy it without a second thought.
According to Rambam, the mitzvot of the Jubilee came to an end ...
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Did converts (ger tzedek) in ancient Israel own land?
Ma'aser Sheini 5:14 says clearly that converts do not get a portion in the land.
מִכָּאן אָמְרוּ, יִשְׂרָאֵל וּמַמְזֵרִים מִתְוַדִּים, אֲבָל לֹא גֵרִים וְלֹא עֲבָדִים מְשֻׁחְרָרִים, שֶׁאֵין לָהֶם ...
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Why does the Torah write Vayikra 25:51 & 25:52?
The answer given by the Gemara and brought by the Torah Temimah is that the verse is teaching that if the value of the slave changed, we use the more lenient measurement of how much he must pay. So if ...
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Questions regarding counting for Shemitta and Yovel
This Mitzva applies to Beit Din (Sifra to your verse; cf. Menachot 65b), and the year would begin on 1 Tishrei (RH 1:1). The Sifra clarifies that they would count both the total years of Yovel and the ...
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Is there a reason for the change in word order in Vayikra 25:10?
Rashi actually addresses this issue.
(Sources from Sefaria.org)
ושבתם איש אל אחזתו. שֶׁהַשָּׂדוֹת חוֹזְרוֹת לְבַעְלֵיהֶן
And you shall return each man to his inheritance: (meaning) that the fields return ...
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Can a Ger Toshav own land in Eretz Yisrael?
Although there are opinions that do say it is okay, it is not so simple. See for example the Minchas Chinuch (284) which says the fact the Rambam does not make any distinguish the prohibition of לא ...
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Do convert slaves and Jewish slaves get released at the same time?
A convert cannot be bought (Rambam, Avadim 1:2), so this question is invalid.
A convert may not sell himself as a servant. This is derived from
Leviticus 25:41: "And he shall return to his ...
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Connection between Yovel and Shavuos?
Sure, there's the 7x7 levels, middot, space-time -- but then there's the Fiftieth gate that's way beyond all that, the Nun, Binah, Ima Ilaah etc. See the Tikkunei Zohar and I'm sure these are ...
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Evidence that Yovel was ever observed?
Ezekiel (7:13), speaking of the impending exile of the Jewish people, says:
כִּי הַמּוֹכֵר אֶל הַמִּמְכָּר לֹא יָשׁוּב
For the seller shall not return to what he sold...
The Talmud (Megillah 14b / ...
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Redeeming s'dei achuzah
Erkekha on Sede-achuza is not an action that has something to do with real-estate business. Sede-achuza gets a fixed value, that has nothing to do with it's market value:
ואם משדה אחזתו יקדיש איש ...
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Hebrew slaves and Yovel - how does it starts and ends?
In answer to your first question, the Torah had decreed a term of six years for anyone who became a slave. Thus if someone stole and became a slave or became that impoverished in the first fifty years ...
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Unexpected Yovel (50th year) to free slaves?
שלשה דברים מעכבין ביובל (there are 3 things that, if not done, prevent the Yovel from taking effect), and one of them is Beis Din blowing the shofar (Rambam, Hilchos Shmittah Veyovel 10:13, from Rosh ...
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Can a non-Jewish slave convert and exit slavery this way?
They might be able to fully convert at the original time. Once they have entered into slavery, however, all the laws of עבד כנעני apply. They cannot escape that status voluntarily.
In any case, no ...
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Do convert slaves and Jewish slaves get released at the same time?
(Edited) A non-Jew who converts normally (not a גרות לשם עבדות, a conversion for the sake of slavery) cannot be sold as an עבד עברי, as pointed out in this answer. He can neither be sold for theft, ...
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Can a Ger Toshav own land in Eretz Yisrael?
R Shlomo Riskin (the Chief Rabbi of Efrat in Israel) writes indeed that a ger toshav can own land in Eretz Israel
According to Rambam [Avodat Kochavim 10:6], the very term ger toshav, stranger-...
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Why did the Rabbis make a decree for Yovel?
The Rambam's ruling is based on the Mishna in Rosh HaShana (26b):
שוה היובל לר"ה לתקיעה ולברכות
Yom Kippur of the Jubilee Year is the same as Rosh HaShana with regard to both the shofar blasts ...
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