613 Mitzvot
The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years
- To let the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11; Lev. 25:2)
(affirmative)
- To cease from tilling the land in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11)
(affirmative) (Lev. 25:2)
- Not to till the ground in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4) (negative)
- Not to do any work on the trees in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4)
(negative)
- Not to reap the aftermath that grows in the Sabbatical year, in the same
way as it is reaped in other years (Lev. 25:5) (negative)
- Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Sabbatical year in the same way
as it is gathered in other years (Lev. 25:5) (negative)
- To sound the Ram's horn in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:9) (affirmative).
- To release debts in the seventh year (Deut. 15:2)
- Not to demand return of a loan after the Sabbatical year has passed (Deut.
15:2)
- Not to refrain from making a loan to a poor man, because of the release of
loans in the Sabbatical year (Deut. 15:9)
- To assemble the people to hear the Torah at the close of the seventh year
(Deut. 31:12) (affirmative)
- To count the years of the Jubilee by years and by cycles of seven years
(Lev. 25:8) (affirmative).
- To keep the Jubilee year holy by resting and letting the land lie fallow
(Lev. 25:10) (affirmative).
- Not to cultivate the soil nor do any work on the trees, in the Jubilee Year
(Lev. 25:11) (negative).
- Not to reap the aftermath of the field that grew of itself in the Jubilee
Year, in the same way as in other years (Lev. 25:11) (negative).
- Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as
in other years (Lev. 25:11) (negative).
- To grant redemption to the land in the Jubilee year (Lev. 25:24)
(affirmative).
