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<li>Abarbanel alternatively suggests to repunctuate the verse, and to put a pause after the words, "מַה נֹּאכַל" rather than after "בַּשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁבִיעִת". As such, the verse reads, "If you say, 'What shall we eat? [After all] in the seventh year we may not sow or harvest!?'"</li> | <li>Abarbanel alternatively suggests to repunctuate the verse, and to put a pause after the words, "מַה נֹּאכַל" rather than after "בַּשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁבִיעִת". As such, the verse reads, "If you say, 'What shall we eat? [After all] in the seventh year we may not sow or harvest!?'"</li> | ||
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− | <point><b>Exceptional Case</b> – R. Hoffmann questions this position, claiming that it is odd that the Torah would be concerned only with the exceptional case of Shemittah followed by Yovel rather than the worries brought by every Shemittah year. Abarbanel, however, claims that is specifically the double-whammy that would cause people to worry. </point> | + | <point><b>Exceptional Case</b> – R. Hoffmann questions this position, claiming that it is odd that the Torah would be concerned only with the exceptional case of Shemittah followed by Yovel rather than the worries brought by every Shemittah year.  Abarbanel, however, claims that is specifically the double-whammy that would cause people to worry. </point> |
<point><b>"וּזְרַעְתֶּם אֵת הַשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁמִינִת"</b></point> | <point><b>"וּזְרַעְתֶּם אֵת הַשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁמִינִת"</b></point> | ||
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Version as of 07:29, 18 May 2016
Pre-Shemittah Blessing of the Produce
Exegetical Approaches
Three Full Years
Hashem promises that the produce from the sixth year will feed the nation for three full years. This position subdivides regarding the situation spoken of in the verses:
Shemittah Followed by Yovel
The verses speak of a case in which Shemittah is followed by the Jubilee Year. Since there are then two consecutive years in which sowing is prohibited, Hashem promises that the food planted in the sixth year will sustain the people for three entire years.
- Ramban and Abarbanel suggests to rearrange the order of the verse so that it reads, "And if you say in the seventh year, "what shall we eat [in the eighth year]".
- Abarbanel alternatively suggests to repunctuate the verse, and to put a pause after the words, "מַה נֹּאכַל" rather than after "בַּשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁבִיעִת". As such, the verse reads, "If you say, 'What shall we eat? [After all] in the seventh year we may not sow or harvest!?'"
Every Shemittah
The Shemittah year begins in Nissan, during the harvest season. As such, during every Shemittah cycle, no food is sown already in the second half of the sixth year, requiring the fifth year to make enough food to last for the entire sixth, seventh and eighth years.
Parts of Three Years
Hashem blesses the nation that the crops planted in the beginning of the sixth year will suffice to nourish them across parts of three years of the shemittah cycle: during the second half of the sixth year, the entire seventh year, and the first half of the eighth year.
Two Plus One
Hashem promises that the produce from the sixth year will provide food for two years and material to sow for the third year.