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Covers the observance of Shmita in Jewish agricultural settlements during the First Aliyah.
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[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team members slain in west germany out of the 24 who were killed were out of the 24 who were killed were americans who had come to learn i say one million jewish children who were made to become losers [Music] it is never too little it is never too late and it is never enough bhajnan and arya labe and malia friedman and also in memory of the brave founders of mascara bhatia during the first aliyah and uh it's a great topic shemitah observance in modern jewish history and now we commenced recently the shmita year so it's a very appropriate and time-worthy uh topic to trace some of the highlights of the history uh in modern times about how it came about with the original it came about with the original agricultural colonies and the different disputes about how to observe shmita during modern times so we're going to try to take it through in several episodes you know it all became relevant again after a long time that this uh idea of observing shmita was dormant and all of a sudden with the renewed settlement and a jewish agricultural settlement that began in the last couple of centuries so it became relevant again i mentioned something in passing because it was before or around the time of russia right after rosh hashanah right before him kipper and i mentioned uh about the and people discussed how there was a half of the pia which is gone and most of that half is gone we only say one or two stanzas of that um and uh and how in the original mahzarin it did appear the other half of malachi and how it was self-censored out uh because of fear of offending the ruling
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- 0:02[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team…
- 4:09at their leisure and i'm always running at the last second one day i'll have uh…
- 7:41born pre-war she she came from you know she wasn't a product of post-war like some…
- 11:49settlements um and then you have its continuation into modern times the founding of the state…
- 15:24and he asked him how schmidt should be observed and it's unclear what he did but…
- 18:57players in the background which is important to mention the alliance uh the kiach the call…
- 21:58hard to know um akron it was really called the settlement the agriculture system was really…
- 25:32written it was very often detrimental to the colonists and and and their their profits from…
- 29:08you have only two of them who are supporting it rashford mohave oliver and they um…
- 32:40in eastern europe in fact the swastenes of ger they get this thing going of trying…
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