Listen "Liberation & Jubilation: On the Yovel"
Episode Synopsis
Shemitah is the culmination of the seven year cycle, and the Yovel is Shemitah squared! 7 times 7 plus one... imagine the catharsis, imagine the release. "Proclaim liberation throughout the land!"
While in Shemitah, agricultural work ceases and all debts are canceled, in Yovel, all relations of human bondage are ended and all the ways we think we can own the earth or another human being are shown to be, ultimately, fictional.
While in Shemitah, agricultural work ceases and all debts are canceled, in Yovel, all relations of human bondage are ended and all the ways we think we can own the earth or another human being are shown to be, ultimately, fictional.