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  • What amazing brochoh will be the farmer's reward for keeping שמיטה?
    The crop of the sixth year will last extra long.  
  • What happens to any fruits that grow during שמיטה?
    It is declared "ownerless" and everyone may come and take of the produce.
  • How often is שמיטה?
    Every seventh year.
  • Why were the בני ישראל in בבל for 70 years?
    For the 70 years of שמיטה and יובל that they did not observe
  • What does the farmer do instead of working during the שׁמיטה year?
    He now has the opportunity to learn Torah.
  • What is אוֹנָאַת דְבָרִים?
    Hurting someone with words
  • For how many years could a field be sold?
    Up to 49 years.
  • What is אוֹנָאַת מַמוֹן?
    Cheating someone with money
  • What is the farmer not allowed to do in שמיטה?
    Not to sow or harvest the land.
  • what extra laws apply during יובל?
    Fields go back to original owner .Slaves go home.
  • What was every fiftieth year called? 
    It was called יובל. 
  • What was not allowed to be down with food that grew during שׁמיטה?
    No throwing it in the garbage. No selling it.
  • On which day of the Yovel year was a שופר blown?
    Yom Kippur of the Yovel year 
  • What lesson can we learn from the fact that the land was allowed to rest for one year?
    That all the land really belongs to Hashem.
  • What laws apply during the year of שמיטה
    no working the land, not planting
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