shmita

English

Alternative forms

• shemittah, shmitah, shmittah

Etymology

Hebrew שְׁמִיטָה

Noun

shmita (plural shmitas)

1. (Judaism) A sabbatical year.
   • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 739:

     The Va·ad recommends that kibbutzim observe some of the sh'mittah laws by letting one field lie fallow as the sh'mittah field, and that they give a percentage of their income to the poor, because that was the original purpose of the law.