Since the renewal of Jewish farming in Eretz Israel in the late 19th
century, the question of observing the sabbatical "shmitta" year has
been a recurring and unresolved halachic topic. Rabbinic opinions have
been, and still are, divided between those who recommend formally
selling Jewish owned agricultural lands for a year to non-Jews ("heter
ha-mechira") and those who require not working the fields, marketing
of alternate non-Jewish produce, and financially supporting the
farmers affected.The Jewish National and University Library Collection includes many broadsides and other original documents relating to this controversy. In commemoration of the shmitta year 5768 beginning now, the Library's David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project is pleased to make a selection of these digitized documents available for viewing at: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/heb/shmitta/ The site is in Hebrew. ketivah va-hatimah tovah. Elhanan ##################################################################### # Elhanan Adler # # Deputy Director for Information Technology # # Jewish National and University Library # # P.O.B. 39105, Jerusalem 91390, Israel # # Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Tel.: 972-2-6585005, FAX: 972-2-6511771, Home tel.: 972-2-6515977 # # Mobile tel.: 972-54-6829657 # ##################################################################### Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
