- are crossing the Jordan to occupy'."
(Deuteronomy 31:10-13)
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Book of Jeremiah: Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a
covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying: "At the end of
seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that
hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let
him go free from thee"; but your fathers hearkened not unto Me, neither
inclined their ear." (Jeremiah 34:13-14)
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Book of Nehemiah: "and if the peoples of the land bring ware or any
victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on
the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh
year, and the exaction of every debt." (Nehemiah 10:31)
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Books of Chronicles: "...And them that had escaped from the sword
carried he away to Babylon;
and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the
kingdom of Persia;
to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah,
until the land had been paid her sabbaths; for as long as she lay
desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. (2
Chronicles 36:20-21)
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Books of Kings: "...[Isaiah speaking] And this is the sign for you:
This year you eat what grows of itself, and the next year what springs
from that, and in the third year, sow and reap and plant vineyards and
eat their fruit. And the survivors of the House of Judah that have
escaped shall regenerate its stock below and produce boughs above." {2
Kings 19:20-30}.
Isaiah is informing King
Hezekiah that if he will
agree to observe the Sabbath year that coming fall (701 BCE), and the
Jubilee [Yovel] the year after (700 BCE), and then resume planting and
harvesting in the following year (699 BCE) then God will act against Sennacherib'ssiege of Jerusalem.
{see 2Kings 19:32-37} There is no other occasion on the Hebrew calendar when
two years of scheduled non-planting occur back-to-back. Hezekiah apparently
agrees, as the siege is diverted. Since the date of Sennacherib's invasion
of Judah and siege against Jerusalem is known to archaeologists as the
spring and summer of 701 BCE, this is evidence that the dates the Rabbinate
considers to be the Sabbath years and Jubilee years are incorrect — the last
Jubilee would have been 2001 (because there was no year "0" between 1 BCE
and 1 CE, and the most recent Sabbatical year therefore began on Rosh
Chodesh Tishri in
September 2008.
This interpretation,
namely that the 2 Kings passage (and its parallel in Isaiah 37:30) refers to
a Sabbatical year followed by a Jubilee year, runs into a difficulty when
the original language of these two passages is examined. The text says that
in the first year the people were to eat "what grows of itself," which is
expressed by one word in the Hebrew, saphiah (ספיח).
In Leviticus 25:5, the reaping of thesaphiah is
forbidden for a Sabbatical year, thus making the interpretation given just
above difficult to maintain. The following is an alternative explanation
that is at least as old as Adam
Clarke's 1837 commentary, and which does not encounter this difficulty. The
Assyrian siege had lasted until after planting time in the fall of 701 BCE,
and although the Assyrians left immediately after the prophecy was given (2
Kings 19:35), they had consumed the harvest of that year before they left,
leaving only the saphiah to
be gleaned from the fields. In the next year, the people were to eat "what
springs from that", Hebrew sahish (סחיש).
Since this word occurs only here and in the parallel passage in Isaiah
37:30, where it is spelled שחיס,
there is some uncertainty about its exact meaning. If it is the same as theshabbat
ha-arets (שבת הארץ)
that was permitted to be eaten in a Sabbatical year in Leviticus 25:6, then
there is a ready explanation why there was no harvest: the second year, i.e.
the year starting in the fall of 700 BCE, was a Sabbatical year, after which
normal sowing and reaping resumed in the third year, as stated in the text.
Another interpretation
obviates all of the speculation about the Shmitta year entirely, translating
the verse as: "And this shall be the sign for you, this year you shall eat
what grows by itself, and the next year, what grows from the tree stumps,
and in the third year, sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their
fruit." . According
to the Judaica Press commentary, it was Sennacherib's invasion that
prevented the people of Judah from sowing in the first year and Isaiah was
promising that enough plants would grow to feed the population for the rest
of the first year and the second year. Therefore, Isaiah was truly providing
a sign to Hezekiah that God would save the city of Jerusalem, as explicitly
stated, and not an injunction concerning the Shmittah or Yovel years, which
are not mentioned at all in the passage.
Rabbinical
interpretations
The rabbis of the
Talmud and later times interpreted the Shmita laws in various ways to ease
the burden they created for farmers and the agricultural industry. The Heter
Mechirah (leniency of sale),
developed for the Shmita year of 1888-1889, permitted Jewish farmers to sell
their land to non-Jews so that they could continue to work the land as usual
during Shmita. This temporary solution to the impoverishment of the Jewish
settlement in those days was later adopted by the Chief
Rabbinate of Israel as a
permanent edict, generating ongoing controversy between Zionist and Hareidi leaders
to this day.[16] There
is a major debate among halakhic authorities as to what is the nature of the
obligation of the Sabbatical year nowadays. Some say it is still biblically
binding, as it has always been. Others hold that it is rabbinically binding,
since the Shmita only biblically applies when the Jubilee year is in effect,
but the Sages of the Talmud legislated the observance of the Shmita anyway
as a reminder of the biblical statute. And yet others hold that the Shmita
has become purely voluntary. An analysis by respected Posek and
former Sephardic Chief
Rabbi Ovadiah
Yosef in his responsa Yabi'a
Omer (Vol. 10), accorded
with the middle option, that the Biblical obligation holds only when a
majority of the Jewish people is living in the Biblical Land
of Israel and hence the
Shmita nowadays is a rabbinic
obligation in nature. This
approach potentially admits for some leniencies which would not be possible
if the Shemitah were biblical in origin, including the aforementioned sale
of the land of Israel. Haredi authorities,
on the other hand, generally follow the view of the Chazon
Ish, that the Shmita continues to be a Biblical obligation.
The Sma, who holds that
Shmitta nowadays is only a Rabbinic obligation, holds that the Biblical
promise of bounty for those who observe the Shmitta (Leviticus 25:20-22)
only applies when the Biblical obligation is in effect, and hence that the
Biblical promise of bounty is not in effect today. However, the Chazon Ish,
who holds that the Biblical obligation of Shmitta observance remains in
effect today, holds that the Biblical promise of bounty follows it and
Divine bounty is promised to Jews living in the Land
of Israel today, just as it
was promised in ancient times. However, he holds that Jews should generally
not demand miracles from Heaven and hence that one should not rely on this
promise for one's sustenance, but should instead make appropriate
arrangements and rely on permissible leniencies.
Haredi Jews tell stories of
groups of Israeli Jews who kept the Shmitta and experienced remarkable
agricultural events which they describe as representative of miracles in
fulfillment of the Biblical promise of bounty. One famous story is told
about the then-two-year-old village ofKomemiyut during
the 1952 Shmittah. The village was one of the few who refrained from working
the land that year. At the end of the Shmittah, farmers searching for seed
to plant found only wormy, inferior seed that had been rotting for years in
an abandoned shed. Rabbi Binyamin Mendelson advised them to sow this seed
anyway, saying "The Almighty who causes wheat to sprout from good seed will
bless your inferior seed as well," even though it was three months after
neighboring villages had planted their fields. They did. That year the fall
rains came late, the day after the Komemiyut seed was sown. As a result, the
neighboring villages had a meager harvest, while the village of Komemiyut,
who sowed from the old store, had a bumper crop.
Observance in the Eretz Yisrael (Israel)
According to the laws
of shmita, land owned by Jews in the Land
of Israel is left unfarmed.
The law does not apply to land in the Diaspora. In Biblical times any
naturally growing produce was left to be taken by poor people, passing
strangers, and beasts of the field. While naturally growing produce such as
grapes growing on existing vines can be harvested, it cannot be sold or used
for commercial purposes; it must be given away or consumed. Personal debts
are considered forgiven at sunset on the 29th of Elul.
Since this aspect of shmita is not dependent on the land, it applies to Jews
both in Israel and elsewhere.
As produce grown on
land in Israel owned by Jewish farmers cannot be sold or consumed, fruits
and vegetables sold in a shmita year may be derived from five sources:
- Produce grown during the sixth year,
to which the laws of the seventh year do not apply.
- Produce grown on land owned by
non-Jewish (typically, Arab)
farmers in Israel.
- Produce grown on land outside the halachic boundaries
of Israel (chutz
la'aretz).
- Produce (mainly fruits) distributed
through the otzar
beit din.
- Produce grown in greenhouses.
Halakhic authorities
prohibit removing produce with Sabbatical sanctity (shevi'it produce)
from the Land of Israel or purchasing such produce outside the land of
Israel. Some authorities hold that tourists should be careful not to carry
any such produce on an airplane leaving Israel even for consumption mid-air.
There is a requirement
that shevi'it produce
be consumed for personal use and cannot be sold or put in trash. For this
reason, there are a variety of special rules regarding the religious use of
products that are normally made from agricultural produce. Some authorities
hold that Hannukah
candles cannot be made from shevi'it oils
because the light of Channukah candles is not supposed to be used for
personal use, while Shabbat candles can be because their light can be used
for personal use. For similar reasons, some authorities hold that if theHavdalah ceremony
is performed using wine made from shevi'it grapes,
the cup should be drunk completely and the candle should not be dipped into
the wine to extinguish the flame as is normally done.
The otzar
beit din system is
structured in such a way that biur remains
the responsibility of members of individual households and hence warehoused
produce does not have to be moved to a public place or reclaimed at the biur time.
Households only have to perform biur on
produce they receive before the biur time,
not on produce they receive after it.
Because the Orthodox rules
of Kashrut have
strictures requiring certain products, such as wine, to be produced by Jews,
the leniency of selling one's land to non-Jews is unavailable for these
products, since these strictures would render the wine non-Kosher.
Accordingly, wine made from grapes grown in the land of Israel during the
Shmita year is subject to the full strictures of Shmita. New vines cannot be
planted. Although grapes from existing vines can be harvested, they and
their products cannot be sold.
While obligatory to the
Orthodox as a matter of religious observance, observance of the rules of
Shmita is voluntary so far as the civil government is concerned in the
contemporary State
of Israel. Civil courts do not enforce the rules. A debt would be
transferred to a religious court for a document of prosbul only if both
parties voluntarily agreed to do so. Many non-religious Israeli Jews do not
observe these rules, although some non-religious farmers participate in the
symbolic sale of land to non-Jews to permit their produce to be considered kosher and
sellable to Orthodox Jews who permit the leniency. Despite this, during
Shmita, crop yields in Israel fall short of requirements so importation is
employed from abroad.
Talmudic references
According to the Talmud,
observance of the Sabbatical year is of high accord, and one who does not do
so may not be allowed to be a witness in an Orthodox religious
court. Nonetheless, Rabbinic
Judaism has developed Halakhic (religious-law)
devices to be able to maintain a modern agricultural and commercial system
while giving heed to the Biblical injunctions. Such devices represent
examples offlexibility
within the Halakhic system
Hillel the Elder, in the first century BCE, used the rule that
remittance of debts applies only to debts between Jews, to develop a device
known as Prosbul in
which the debt is transferred to a Beit
Din (religious court). When
owed to the court rather than to an individual, the debt survives the
Sabbatical year. This device, formulated early in the era of Rabbinic
Judaism when the Temple
in Jerusalem was still
standing, became a prototype of how Judaism was later to adapt to the
destruction of the Second
Temple and maintain a system
based on Biblical law under very different conditions.
The rabbis of the Jerusalem
Talmud created rules to
impose order on the harvesting process including a rule limiting harvester
on others' land to taking only enough to feed themselves and their families.
They also devised a system, called otzar beit
din, under which arabbinical
court supervised a communal
harvesting process by hiring workers who harvested the fields, stored it in
communal storage facilities, and distributed it to the community.
There exists a major
difference of opinion between two Acharonim,
the Beit
Yosef and the Mabit,
as to whether produce grown on land in Israel which is owned by non-Jews
also has sanctity. According to the Beit Yosef, such produce has no sanctity
and may be used and/or discarded in the same way as any produce grown
outside of Israel. According to the Mabit, the fact that this produce was
grown in Israel, even by non-Jews, gives it sanctity, and it must be treated
in the special ways detailed above.
The Chazon
Ish, a noted Hareidi halachic
authority who issued key rulings on Jewish agricultural law (mitzvos
tlu'os ba'aretz)in the 1930s and 1940s, ruled like the Mabit, holding
that produce grown on land in Israel owned by non-Jews has sanctity. The
Chazon Ish's ruling was adopted first by the religious families of Bnei Brak
and is popularly called Minhag
Chazon Ish (the custom of the
Chazon Ish).
The rabbis of
Jerusalem, on the other hand, embraced the opinion of the Beit Yosef that
produce farmed on land owned by non-Jews has no sanctity. This opinion is
now called Minhag Yerushalayim (the
custom of Jerusalem), and was adopted by many Haredi families,
byBritish
Mandate Palestine, and by the Chief
Rabbinate of Israel.
These respective
opinions are reflected in the way the various kashrut certifying
organizations publicize their Shmita and non-Shmita produce. The Edah
HaChareidis, which follows Minhag
Yerushalayim, buys produce
from non-Jewish farms in Israel and sells it as "non-Shmita produce." The Shearit
Yisrael certifying
organization, which subscribes to Minhag
Chazon Ish, also buys from
non-Jewish farmers in Israel, but labels the produce as such so that
customers who keep Minhag
Chazon Ish will treat these
fruits and vegetables with appropriate sanctity.
Shevi'it
In Halakha (Jewish
law), produce of the seventh year that is subject to the laws of Shmita
is called sheviit, (sheviis in Ashkenazic
Hebrew).Shevi'it produce
has sanctity requiring special rules for its use:
- It can only be consumed or used (in
its ordinary use) for personal enjoyment
- It cannot be bought, sold, or thrown
out.
- It must be used in its "best" manner
so as to ensure fullest enjoyment (For example, fruits that are normally
eaten whole cannot be juiced).
- It can only be stored so long as
naturally-growing plants of the given species can be eaten by animals in
the fields. Once a particular species is no longer available in the
field, one must rid ones house of it through a process known as biur.
By Biblical law, Jews
who own land are required to make their land available during the Shmita to
anyone who wishes to come in and harvest. If the land is fenced etc., gates
must be left open to enable entrance. These rules apply to all outdoor
agriculture, including private gardens and even outdoor potted plants.
Plants inside a building are exempt. However, the Rabbis of the Mishna and Jerusalem
Talmud imposed rabbinic
ordinances on harvesters to
ensure an orderly and equitable process and to prevent a few individuals
from taking everything. Harvesters on others' land are permitted to take
only enough to feed themselves and their families.
Heter mechira
In the late 19th
century, in the early days of Zionism, Rabbi Yitzchak
Elchanan Spektor came
up with a halakhic means of allowing agriculture to continue during the
Shmita year. After ruling in favor of Minhag
Yerushalayim, that the biblical prohibition consists of not cultivating
the land owned by Jews ("your land",
Exodus 23:10), Rabbi Spektor devised a mechanism by which the land could be
sold to a non-Jew for the duration of that year under a trust agreement.
Under this plan, the land would belong to the non-Jew temporarily, and
revert to Jewish ownership when the year was over. When the land was sold
under such an arrangement, Jews could continue to farm it. Rabbi Abraham
Isaac Kook, the first Chief Rabbi of British
Mandate Palestine, adopted this principle, which became known as the heter
mechira (lit. "sale permit").
The heter
mechira was accepted by Modern
Orthodox Judaism and is one
of the classic examples of the Modern Orthodox approach toward adapting
classical Jewish law to the modern world. However, this approach has not
been universally accepted in the Orthodoxcommunity
and has met with opposition, particularly from Haredi poskim (authorities
of Jewish law).
In contemporary
religious circles these rabbinic leniencies have received wide but not
universal acceptance. In Israel, the Chief Rabbinate obtains permission from
all farmers who wish to have their land sold. The land is then legally sold
to a non-Jew for a large sum of money. The payment is made by a cheque
post-dated to after the end of the Sabbatical year. When the cheque is
returned or not honoured at the end of the year the land reverts to its
original owners. Thus, the fields can be farmed with certain restrictions.
Although the Orthodox
Union's Kashrut Division accepts Minhag
Yerushalayim and hence
regards the produce of land owned by non-Jews as ordinary produce, it does
not currently rely on the heter
mechira because of doubts
about whether the trust arrangement involved effects a valid transfer of
ownership.
Some Haredi farmers
do not avail themselves of this leniency and seek other pursuits during the
Shmita year.
Storehouse
of the rabbinical court
An otzar (storehouse) beit
din is an ancient storehouse,
mentioned in the Tosefta (Sheviit).
Under an otzar beit din, a
communityrabbinical
court supervises harvesting
by hiring workers to harvest, store, and distribute food to the community.
Members of the community pay the beit
din, but this payment represents only a contribution for services,
and not a purchase or sale of the food.
The Talmudic device was
revived in modern times as an alternative to the heter
mechira for observant
Jews wishing to utilize an approach which regards the produce of the Land
of Israel as sacred and which
undertakes to respect the special rules associated with its sanctity.
Because under this
approach land cannot be sown but existing plants can be tended and
harvested, the approach is applied to orchards, vineyards, and other
perennial crops. Under the approach, a beit
din, or rabbinical court
supervising the process, hires farmers as its agents to tend and harvest the
crops, and appoints the usual distributors and shopkeepers as its agents to
distribute them. Individual consumers appoint the court and its designees as
their agents and pay monies to court-appointed designees as agents of the
court. Thus, under this approach, a legal arrangement is created whereby the
crops themselves are never bought or sold, but rather people are merely paid
for their labor and expenses in providing certain services. In modern
Israel, the badatz is
notable for adapting and supervising such arrangements.
The Orthodox
Union notes that "to some,
the modern-day otzar might
seem to be nothing more than a legal sleight of hand. All the regular
players are still in place, and distribution rolls along as usual. However,
in reality, it is identical only in appearance as prices are controlled, and
may correspond only to expenses, with no profit allowed. In addition, the otzar
beit din does not own the
produce. Since it is simply a mechanism for open distribution, any
individual is still entitled to collect produce from a field or orchard on
his own. Furthermore, all agents of the beit
din are appointed only if
they commit to distributing the produce in accordance with the restrictions
that result from its sanctity."
Biur
Under the rules of the
Shmita, produce with Sabbatical sanctity (shevi'it) can only be
stored as long as plants of the same species (e.g. plants sprouting by
themselves) are available to animals in the fields. Once a species is no
longer available in the land, halacha requires
that it be removed, made ownerless, and made available to anyone who wishes
to take it through a procedure called biur.
The Orthodox Union
describes the contemporary application of the rules of biur as
follows:
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On the appointed day, one must remove all the relevant produce, and all
products containing such produce, from his home and take it to a public
area such as a sidewalk. Once there, the individual declares the produce
in front of three people who do not live with him. He then waits to give
the witnesses a chance to claim the produce. Once they have taken what
they want, he is permitted to reclaim whatever remains. It is
permissible to choose three people whom one knows will not claim the
produce for themselves, even though they are legally entitled to.
Thus, while the
obligation of making one's produce available to the public and permitted to
all takers can be performed in such a way as to minimize the risk that this
availability will actually be utilized, this risk cannot be entirely
eliminated. The community at large, including members of the poor, must be
afforded some opportunity to take the produce.
Biur only
applies to produce that has shevi'it sanctity.
For this reason, it does not apply to produce grown under the heter
mechirah for those who accept
it. (Under the reasoning of the heter
mechirah the shmita does not
apply to land owned by non-Jews, so its produce does not have shevi'it sanctity.)
Since
the establishment of the state
The first Shmita year
in the modern State
of Israel was 1951 (5712 in
the Hebrew
calendar) Subsequent Shmita years have been 1958–59 (5719), 1965–66
(5726), 1972–73 (5733), 1979–80 (5740), 1986–87 (5747), 1993–94 (5754), and
2000–01 (5761). The last Shmita year began on the Jewish
New Year in September 2007,
corresponding to the Hebrew
calendar year 5768. The 50th
year of the land, which is also a Shabbat of
the land, is called "Yovel" in Hebrew, which is the origin of the Latin term
"Jubilee", also meaning 50th. The Jubilee
Yearis not observed in modern times because it only applies when
representatives of all twelve tribes have returned and a majority of the
world's Jews live in the Land. In
2000, Sefardic Chief
Rabbi Eliyahu
Bakshi-Doron withdrew
religious certification of
the validity of permits for the sale of land to non-Jews during the Shmita
year following protests against his endorsement of the leniency by members
of the Haredi community.
Hydroponics
Authorities who
prohibit farming in Israel generally permit hydroponics farming
in greenhouses structured so that the plants are not connected to the soil.
As a result, hydroponics use has been increasing in Haredi farming
communities.
Shmita 2007–2008
During the 2007-2008
Shmita, the Chief
Rabbinate of Israel attempted
to avoid taking a potentially divisive position on the dispute between Haredi and Modern
Orthodox views about the
correctness of the heter
mechirah leniency by ruling
that local rabbis could make their own decisions about whether or not to
accept this device as valid. The Israel
Supreme Court, however, ordered the Chief Rabbinate to rescind its
ruling and to devise a single national ruling. The Israel Supreme Court
opined that divergent local rulings would be harmful to farmers and trade
and could implicate competition. The issue of secular courts ordering the
rabbinate to rule in particular ways on religious matters aroused a debate
within the Knesset. Israeli
wineries often address this issue by making separate batches of Shmita wine,
labeled as such, and giving away bottles of Shmita wine as a free bonus to
purchasers of non-Shmita wine.
See also
References
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Jump up^ This
article incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), a
publication now in the public domain. Sabbatical year - every
seventh year, during which the land, according to the law of Moses,
had to remain uncultivated (Lev. 25:2-7; comp. Ex. 23:10, 11, 12;
Lev. 26:34, 35). Whatever grew of itself during that year was not
for the owner of the land, but for the poor and the stranger and the
beasts of the field.
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C.H. Gordon, "The Biblical Sabbath, its Origin and Observance in the
Ancient Near East', Jud 31 (1982), pp. 12-16; idem, 'Sabbatical
Cycle or Seasonal Pattern', Or 22 (1953), pp. 79-81, who draws
mainly upon Ugaritic ...
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L. Baker Tight fists
or open hands?: wealth and poverty in Old Testament law p224
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legislate for a sabbatical year, nor any other regular fallowing of
land, though we know that fallowing was common practice from early
times. There are numerous references to ... Feliks (1972: 375)
believes the sabbatical was an extra fallow year, so the farmer
planted a particular field just three times in seven years. Hopkins
(1985: 191-95, 200-202) suggests that the farmer would have planted
all his fields in ..."
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"In his detailed study of agriculture in Iron Age Israel, Borowski
(1987: 143-45) makes no reference to the biennial fallow, and is
apparently unaware of the research cited above which has advocated
this. He assumes that the sabbatical ..."
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| Yovel | Jubilee Year
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Jump up^ Shemittah
| Shmita | Get ready for Shemittah Year 5768
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Top Court Backs Loophole in Farming Law, New
York Times, October 25, 2007
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Year Controversy in Israel National
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Battle Creates Showdown Between Zionists, Haredim Jewish
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The Shmita Project
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The New York Times, "As
Farmers and Fields Rest, a Land Grows Restless", October 8, 2007
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Shmita: Info and News
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"Shmita: 5712", Time
Magazine, October 20, 1952
- Dayan Dr. I. Grunfeld. Shemittah
and Yobel. Soncino
Press, 1972. ISBN
0-900689-91-9
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All about Shemitah
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Shemittah: the Sabbatical Year (Orthodox
Union article on Shmita)
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"Genesis, Covenant, Jubilee, Shmitah and the Land Ethic" by Rabbi David
Seidenberg (neohasid.org), on jewcology.com
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Seattle Vaad, Shmita 5768 (explanation
of Shmita rules)
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"As shmita ends, gardeners gear up for hard work"
Categories:
WASHINGTON – Jonathan Cahn’s “The
Mystery of the Shemitah” debuted
at No. 5 on Amazon’s Top 100 the day it was released this week,
triggering a major reprint on the same day to meet market demand at
retail outlets across the nation.
The book hit No. 1 atop the Christian Prophecy category at Amazon.com
and several other general-market and Christian trade lists, including
Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and CBD.com.
The sophomore release for Cahn builds on the
mysterious biblical prophecy revealed in his million-copy-selling novel, “The
Harbinger,” which
became a publishing phenomenon and remained on the New York Times
best-seller list for more than 110 weeks.
“We know the immeasurable scale of impact
Jonathan Cahn’s teachings have, yet we are still amazed by how quickly ‘The
Mystery of the Shemitah’ has caught
the attention of the nation as a whole,” said Tessie DeVore, Charisma
House Book Group executive vice president. “‘The Harbinger’ was only the
beginning of a deeply vital cry for Christians to pray for America’s
future.”
“The Harbinger,” and “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” the
documentary movie version of the teaching that inspired the book,
introduced readers to the Shemitah (pronounced shmee-TAH), or Sabbath
year, and how it relates to the attacks and collapses that America
experienced in 2001 and 2008.
But, “The
Mystery of the Shemitah” goes
further – much further. In his research, the author has found patterns
throughout the history of America and the world that line up with the
Shemitah, which he explains in the new nonfiction book.
The Shemitah is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle
mandated by the Torah for the land of Israel. Cahn says understanding
this seven-year pattern is essential for understanding the prophecies
and mysteries of the Bible that are still applicable today.
For instance, Wall Street analysts have pondered the mystery of what
appears to be seven-year economic cycles. They’ve also wondered why
crashes seem to come in September or the early fall.
If you haven’t read “The Harbinger” or seen “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment”
yet, now is the time to catch up on the groundbreaking spiritual
detective work of Jonathan Cahn.
In Cahn’s sequel, the messianic rabbi reveals the shocking discovery
that the five great economic crashes of the last 40 years – 1973, 1980,
1987, 2001 and 2008 – have all occurred in Shemitah years – those God
set apart as Sabbath years.
As he pointed out in his earlier book, in 2001 and 2008 they coincided
precisely with the exact end of the Shemitah year on the Hebrew calendar
day of Elul 29.
See the trailer:
What does it all mean?
Cahn summed up his message by saying, “America is progressing toward
God’s judgment.”
According to the Bible, the Shemitah year was set aside as a blessing
for the nation of Israel.
Like the weekly Sabbath, the Shemitah year would be a time of rest for
the land and for the agricultural society. There would be no sowing and
reaping. Instead, God would provide food miraculously for the people, as
He did during the Exodus from Egypt.
Leviticus 25:4 says: “But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest
unto the land, a Sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field,
nor prune thy vineyard.”
However, Cahn points out, if the Shemitah was not observed by the
people, it would become a curse, as described later in Leviticus chapter
25. That’s exactly what happened, Cahn says in 586 B.C., a Shemitah
year, when the Temple fell and Judah went into captivity in Babylon for
70 years.
It’s no mystery that “The
Mystery of the Shemitah” releases just before the next Shemitah
cycle begins Sept. 25, 2014 – ending Sept. 13, 2015.
Cahn explains Shemitah can have several meanings. It can mean a
“release” – and in ancient Israel debts were canceled and land returned
to its original owners. But it can also mean “to fall, to collapse, to
shake,” he says.
But the Shemitah seems to be affecting the U.S. economy throughout much
of the nation’s history.
The eight greatest postwar economic crashes are all mysteriously
connected to a biblical Sabbath year pattern known in Hebrew as “the
Shemitah,” reveals the book – evidence certain to rock the world of
financial speculators, stock market traders and economists.
Among the stunning findings of the author who found jaw-dropping links
between the 9/11 terrorist attack and an otherwise obscure biblical
passage, Isaiah 9:10, is that 100 percent of the worst U.S. economic
calamities since World War II are all lined to the “Shemitah,” the
biblical Sabbath year, its wake or the biblical month of Tishri in which
the “Shemitah” falls.
But more than that – all of the great economic crashes in U.S. history,
including the Great Depression, line up with Shemitah years.
“It has been affecting everything in our lives,” says Cahn. “There’s no
end to it. It’s amazing. It’s precise. It’s down to the days, the hours,
the minutes, even the seconds.”
“I have to tell you, economically speaking,
this new book by Jonathan Cahn is one of the scariest things I have ever
read,” said Joseph Farah, producer of “The
Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” the bestselling documentary film made with the
author about the subject matter of “The Harbinger.” “If ‘The Harbinger’
got your attention, ‘The Mystery of the Shemitah’ will have you on your
face praying.”
If you haven’t read “The Harbinger” or seen “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment”
yet, now is the time to catch up on the groundbreaking spiritual
detective work of Jonathan Cahn.
In 1931, a solar eclipse took place on Sept. 12 – the end of a
“Shemitah” year. Eight days later, England abandoned the gold standard,
setting off market crashes and bank failures around the world. It also
ushered in the greatest monthlong stock market percentage crash in Wall
Street history.
In 1987, a solar eclipse took place Sept. 23 – again the end of a
“Shemitah” year. Less than 30 days later came “Black Monday,” the
greatest percentage crash in Wall Street history.
Is Cahn predicting doom and gloom on Sept. 13, 2015? He’s careful to
avoid a prediction, saying, “In the past, this ushered in the worst
collapses in Wall Street history. What will it bring this time? Again,
as before, the phenomenon does not have to manifest at the next
convergence. But, at the same time, and again, it is wise to take note.”
To top it off, “Shemitah” years are also grouped in sevens – with the
50th year being a year of jubilee – or trumpet blast.
“The jubilee was something a super Shemitah,” writes Cahn. “It was the
Shemitah taken to a new level. In the year of the Shemitah the land
rested – so too in the Year of Jubilee. In the year of the Shemitah came
release. But in the Year of Jubilee the release took on new meaning. It
was not simply the letting go of land or debt. In the jubilee, slaves
and prisoners were set free. It was thus the year of liberty.”
While no one is certain when the year of jubilee is, Cahn presents
evidence that the next one may coincide with the end of the next
Shemitah year – again Sept. 13 on the Gregorian calendar.
Cahn also looks at the five greatest financial turning points of the
past 40 years and finds they are connected to the Shemitah cycle.
As he puts it, ‘From the 40-year period beginning in 1973, every single
one of the five greatest financial and economic peaks and collapses have
converged, clustered and taken place according to the set time of the
Shemitah.”
“Something very much more than natural is indeed going on,” concludes
the understated Cahn. “And the signs of the phenomenon all point to the
same ancient biblical mystery. If the collapse of the world’s stock
markets were an act of crime, the Shemitah would have long ago been
indicted for the evidence left at the crime scene. In its numbers, its
connections, its convergences, its percentages, its magnitude and its
consistency, the amount of fingerprints covering the financial
cataclysms of modern times is overwhelming.”
Likewise, “The
Mystery of the Shemitah” is
somewhat overwhelming too. The economic coincidences are only part of
the story. The book also explores the rise and fall of kingdoms and
their connections with the Shemitah cycles – its connections with World
War I, World War II and the Cold War.
But Cahn is careful not to predict what will happen in the coming
Shemitah year.
“The phenomenon may manifest in one cycle and not in another and then
again in the next,” he writes. “And the focus of the message is not
date-setting but the call of God to repentance and return. At the same
time, something of significance could take place, and it is wise to note
the times.”
Cahn also notes the fact that 2014 and 2015
are marked by a series of blood moons – a pattern that began on Passover
2014 and will conclude on the Feast of Tabernacles in 2015, as
discovered by Pastor Mark Biltz, author of “Blood
Moons” and the inspiration for a documentary of the same name.
See the movie that introduces the Shemitah and the way it is affecting
the U.S. today and read Cahn’s new book, “The Mystery of the Shemitah,”
to review his latest shocking findings.
Catch up on Jonathan Cahn’s past works and order his new one, “The
Mystery of the Shemitah,” now.
Learn all about the “Blood Moons” cycle from the man who discovered it –
Mark Biltz.
Read more at
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/mystery-of-the-shemitah-hits-publishing-milestone/#qWckuV7OvIwDKfYe.99
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This should cause a few eyebrows to be raised in the
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The Jewish category of the archangels is recognized
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In 1896 Theodor Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The
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In Jewish tradition the letter Shin is inscribed on
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Elohim occupy the seventh rank of ten in the famous medieval
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ancient Israel prior to the Babylonian Captivity.
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Hanukkah (Hebrew: חנוכה , alt. Chanukah), also known as the
Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday
commemorating ...
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Then we have the Bible verse Rev. 6, which you don't find in
any Jewish Bible, only in Christian Bibles:
Revelation 6.
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Jewish settlers have taken over historic sites and
built on land confiscated from Palestinians in order to
expand the Jewish presence in East Jerusalem, while
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The Jewish re-occupation of the city of Jerusalem is
proof positive that we are living in the season of the
Lord's return. Jesus said it would mark the end of ...
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Another view has been more popular among Jewish
scholars, at least as far back as Flavius Josephus, and has
support ...
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If one can generalize, Israeli Jewish close
encounters since 1993 have mostly been with giant entities
and UFO activity has always accompanied the incidents, ...
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It is an esoteric Jewish tradition. Dr. Hurtak's book
explains Kabballah and the Sephiroth in new ways. With
Sacred Names the Sephiroth = Tree of Life.
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* Take the handcuffs off Ariel Sharon and Israel to respond
appropriately to the terror attacks the Jewish state
has endured for the last year. ...
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The Jewish theologian Scholem ... www.greatdreams.com/grlwhat.htm
: DREAMS AND VISIONS OF THE HOLY GRAIL AND THE SECOND COMING
OF CHRIST. Before I present this ...
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MASTER NUMBER -555 - 500 TRUMPETS AND 250 DRUMS. What Does
This Mean? compiled by Dee Finney
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The Jewish calendar year equivalent to 2000 ad
multiplied by a great year (Josephus book 1 ch 3 v 9)
divided by the diameter of Mars (4200 miles =
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James J. Tissot, "The Waters Are Divided" (1896-1900),
watercolor, Jewish Museum, New York. Larger image.
When Moses lifts his staff, an extension of his hand ...
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... (the equivalent of 7 jewish holocaust annually).
Contemporary wars continue to rage on and proliferate. In
the nation of Iraq, the ...
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His iron will was forged at an early age during his bitter
struggle for survival as a Jewish adolescent in
Nazi-occupied France. He is a difficult ...
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May 16, 2006 (Jewish Year 5766) "I overheard them
whispering to each other that they were going to be meeting
again on the streets when their holiday ...
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This is generally known as a special Hebrew tradition, the
occult philosophy of certain Jewish rabbis,
especially in the Middle Ages, based on a ...
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VISION/DREAM 6-23-04 - I saw a list of 8 words under each
other: They were light blue on a white background. cabal
cabala cabalic
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CHURCH MASSACRES. BEFORE AND AFTER? THE DREAM AND THE
REALITY. compiled by Dee Finney. updated 3-13-04
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19 GREAT WOMEN WRITERS. AND OTHER FAMOUS WOMEN. compiled by
Dee Finney
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THE GREATEST PROPHECY. 3-21-98 DREAM: I was at my 16th St.
house. In the backyard were a lot of foreign religious
leaders in army uniforms and every one had a gun.
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WHO IS THE BLACK MAN? 10-22-97 - DREAM - Our house was in an
apartment building. The Internic (controller of domain
names) was installed on the 6th floor.
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THE DREAM OF 33. NORTH AND SOUTH. by Dee Finney. updated
2-19-02 2-15-02 - DREAM - I don't know what city I was in. I
knew all the people and my kids were grown ...
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9-8-89 - Meditation: Q. "When will the Anti-Christ be
revealed." A. "1991". "When he is 29 years old, like Christ
was. He will be prominent for 3 years, also like Christ.
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This article is about the number 72 and the ancient code of
numbers found in ancient sites and writings worldwide.
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THE GOLDEN TEMPLE. The Golden Temple Destination: The Golden
Temple, Amritsar INTRODUCTION The Golden Temple is the
ultimate Sikh pilgrimage.
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THE MEANING OF 11 AND 11:11 "The Symbolism and Spiritual
Significance of the Number 11" 11:11 - What Does it Mean?...
added a cross, the perpendicular and ...
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CHARITIES LINKS FOR HUMANITIES RELIEF. Here for your
convenience are some of the agencies accepting contributions
for refugee assistance to alleviate the current ...
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The 6th Trumpet Judgment (Revelation 9:13-21) is the
destruction of 1/3 of mankind by 200 million demonic
horsemen. Although the tendency is to ...
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haarp vs the sun. there is more going on than anyone is
allowed to know. updated 10-1-06 "absence of evidence does
not correlate to evidence of absence"
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future planetary alignment???? the four worlds. by dee
finney. doomsday???? science makes way for planet x to
appear to humanity! updated 2-18-08. updated 2-18-11
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Taurus Star Chart . In Taurus, the better-known group of
'maidens' is the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a small but
very noticeable cluster of stars on the bull's shoulder.
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dreams of the great earthchanges religious and spiritual
pages. 2-4-07 - letters of paul i received these on sept.
28th of 1950. revelation: the eighth gate and the ...
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REPTILIAN RESEARCH. CONTENTS PAGE. compiled by Dee Finney .
Abyss and the Beast. AGHARTA This is the underworld. Hindu.
aka Agharti, Agharta network, which inclËudes ...
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DAVID ICKE RESPONDS TO CHARGES IN CANADA 10-10-99 Subj: Fwd:
[earthchanges] David Icke Under Severe Attack- Efforts
toSilence Date: 10/10/1999 1:55:32 AM Central ...
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World Peace - the healing of the world - is achieved through
a very simple principle: We Create Peace By Being Peace.
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1260. CHANDRA LEVY ADDRESS IN WASHINGTON D.C. A CONNECTION
TO REVELATION? by Dee Finney and Joe Mason. 7-15-2001.
updated 5-29-2003. updated 4-11-2013: Armando ...
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Dee Finney's blog. start date July 20, 2011. today's date
December 10, 2013. page 607. TOPIC: THE BOOK OF DANIEL
UNSEALED THE CLOCK OF GOD, PROPHECY AND REVELATION
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small pox. the dream and the reality. dark winter - false
flag the soldier's vaccines causes cardiac problems that
means they added something to the vaccine
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CROSS de LORRAINE . Dee Finney's blog. start date July 20,
2011. today's date January 5, 2014. page 624. TOPIC: CROSS
OF LORRAINE. NOTE FROM DEE: I watched a ...
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Dee Finney's blog. start date July 20, 2011. today's date
January 31, 2013. page 434 . TOPIC: THE ANUNNAKI HAVE
RETURNED. NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE AND VIDEO HAVE ...
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Where Is Turtle Island? The name "Turtle Island" comes from
a common Native American legend and is their name for the
North American continent.
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These messages are of greater significance than many have
realized. They represent the 7 lamps of the lampstand of the
tabernacle of meeting.
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SIGNS OF SANAI NUCLEAR WAR 2500 BC . Dee Finney's blog.
start date July 20, 2011. today's date September 24, 2012.
page 315. TOPIC: NUCLEAR WINTER. THIS IS A SCARY ...
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THE BRIDESMAIDS COMETH. A PROPHECY OF THE BOOK OF
REVELATION. compiled by Dee Finney
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NEW PROPHECIES. THE RETURN OF THE DOVE This event is in
progress Mark your calendar for Dec. 21, 2009 and Mar. 21,
2010 THE DEATH OF ESTHER A PROPHECY OF ISRAEL
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GOD HEARD THE CRIES OF MOSES. You may want to refer to this
map again when you are reading the Bible verses below.
compiled by Dee Finney
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WORLD MEDITATION PRAYERS FOR PEACE-----The Prayer of St
Francis-----Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
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Dee Finney's blog. start date July 20, 2011. today's date
May 6, 2012. page 213 . TOPIC: 88 BOOKS TO READ - and more.
this IS TAKEN FROM A DREAM WHERE A MAN TOLD ME ...
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HEZBOLLAH. An Experience What's really going on? by Dee
Finney. 2-5-2002. updated 7-13-06. 2-5-2002 - I was in the
kitchen making breakfast. As I was flipping over ...
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12-18-05 - DREAM - I was living at my 16th St. house. It was
early morning and I was getting ready for school. I was
talking on the phone to a long distance ...
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank, April 6, 2002 (Reuters) - The Israeli
army said on Saturday it had helped three Greek Orthodox
clergymen and two Palestinian women slip ...
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This article provides vital information about the number
444, and the other triplets. Found in crop circles, one is
led to see that the numbers are about creation itself.
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THE PLUM TREE AND THE PALM TREE. THE DREAM AND PROPHECY.
ANOTHER TERRORISM THREAT??? compiled by Dee Finney "The
righteous will flourish like a palm tree"
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THE NUMBER 75 - SEVENTY-FIVE. WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 75 days
to some kind of plague of death? THE RAPTURE? JANUARY 11,
2009? THE MESSIAH ARRIVING IN 2015?
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DREAM OF STAR WARS - 8-15-2002 - DREAM - I was making a web
page about Star Wars with a white background. The only name
mentioned on the page was 'Hans Solo"
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W A S H I N G T O N, May 2 — When Steve Baldwin, the
executive director of an organization with the
stale-as-old-bread name of the Council for National Policy
...
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The Changing of the Guard: Corporate Media Whistleblower
Speaks. Part Two: Illuminati Revealed. By Art Aqua. 7/27/03.
What the head-honcho corporate news memo-writers ...
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KABBALISTIC VIEW Ein Sof Infinity. The term Ein Sof is
sometimes taken in Kabbalah to refer to God's very essence.
When more precisely used, Ein Sof refers to God's ...
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Note: We received this information in an e-mail dated
9-5-2001, prior to the World Trade Center event. It seems
rather prophetic. Under the
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dee finney's blog. start date juily 20, 2011. today's date
october 1, 2011. topic ioesous and the song oif ruth .
10-1-11 - i was dreaming all night long for almost ...
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third temple with a minaret next to it . thhird temple
diagram. note the cube in the center . dee finney's blog.
start date july 20, 2011. today's date march 3, 2012
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Black Mass and sacrifices of Madame de Montespan (King Louis
XIV of France) from "The Geography of Witchcraft" by
Montague Summers (London 1927)
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GENESIS 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days,
and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the
daughters of men, and they bore ...
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For quite a few years, I've been reading about and
collecting dreams and information about Two Suns. Many are
searching for information as to 'why' they are dreaming ...
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Dee Finney's blog. start date July 20, 2011. today's date
December 24, 2013. page 615. TOPIC: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE
OF JERUSALEM. THE BEGINNING OF THIS BLOG WAS ...
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diaspora comes to visit. race riots. the dream and the
reality. lets hope this isn't a future prophecy. compiled by
dee finney
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Exerpts from Images & Voices of Lighthouse
Country A pict/oral history of Deep Bay, Bowser,
Qualicum Bay, Horne Lake by Rita Levitz and Leah
Willott
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CIVIL RIGHTS. BEGINNING WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United
States. Abraham Lincoln said, "America will
never be destroyed
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DEES DREAMS AND VISIONS. JANUARY 2014. 1-1-14 -
DREAM - I was in a dimly lit bedroom with my
daughter. She had some little toys in cloth bags
in the closet - the ...
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REVELATION OF THE SUN. by Lee Chin
'GENESISOFLIGHT' and resources from others as
named . Music is "I'll Follow the Sun" by the
Beatles (Please be patient while large ...
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This article explores the 9-11-2001 disasters as
symbolic events. Meaningful coincidence related
to numbers and symbols add to the convincing
power of the story.
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THE VAULTS OF HEAVEN. THE 28TH PATH. THE DREAM
AND THE REALITY. compiled by Dee Finney.
8-23-2001 "Vaults of Heaven" (Psalm 19:1-6)
Lyrics by Jim Steinman - Music by ...
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Robert F. Kennedy Memorial . MAN'S INHUMANITY TO
MAN. WEIGHED AGAINST. THE 52 VIRTUES (Music and
Lyrics) This page is based on a series of dreams
and visions which I ...
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When the Bible Code book came out by Michael
Drosnin, I was very skeptical that it was
possible for an ancient book to predict exact
details about today no matter how ...
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Hilarion is Chohan of the Fifth Ray, the green
ray, of truth, science, vision and prosperity.
He works with souls to help them gain mastery in
the third-eye ...
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THE RIGHT HAND OF APOLLO. The Connection to
Revelation 12. THE SIGN IN THE HEAVENS HAS
APPEARED! compiled by Dee Finney
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