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The Radical Economics of the Sabbatical Year
We're living inside a Shmita year right now — the Hebrew year 5786 runs through September 2026, and fields are lying fallow and debts are being released in Israel as we speak. This episode explores the biblical blueprint for the sabbatical year: the agricultural fallow, the debt cancellation, and the divine guarantee against famine. Then we trace how this radical economic idea evolved through Jewish history — from Hillel's prosbul loophole in the first century BCE to the heter mechira land sale that keeps modern Israeli agriculture running. It's a story about the tension between an ideal and…
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