0_Wizard
How do you feel about gap years? It is also known as a sabbatical year.
A gap year, also known as a sabbatical year, is a year’s break between high school and college/university, aimed at promoting a mature outlook with which to absorb the benefits of higher education.
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Historical Sabbatical Years
Various attempts have been made to reconstruct when Sabbatical years actually fell using clues in the Biblical text and events clearly dated in fixed historically understood calendars. This is important because the system of Jubilee and Sabbatical (Shmita) years provides a useful check in deciding between competing reconstructions of the histories of the First Temple period and earlier and the history of the Second Temple period and later. There are explicit mentions of a Sabbatical year found in Josephus, 1 Maccabees, and in various legal contracts from the time of Simon bar Kokhba. In contrast, no direct statements that a certain year was a Sabbatical year have survived from First Temple times and earlier.
Jubilee (biblical)
The Jubilee ( "yūḇāl;" Yiddish: "yoyvl") is the year at the end of seven cycles of "shmita" (Sabbatical years), and according to Biblical regulations had a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel; there is some debate whether it was the 49th year (the last year of seven sabbatical cycles, referred to as the Sabbath's Sabbath), or whether it was the following (50th) year. Jubilee deals largely with land, property, and property rights. According to Leviticus, slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.
Gap year
A gap year, also known as a sabbatical year, is a year’s break between high school and college/university, aimed at promoting a mature outlook with which to absorb the benefits of higher education. It also indicates a break before entry into graduate school. Activities range across advanced academic courses, extra-academic courses and non-academic courses, such as pre-college math courses, language studies, learning a trade, art studies, volunteer work, travel, internships, sports, cultural exchanges and more. In 1967 Project Trust sent its first three volunteers to Ethiopia from the UK. In 1972, Gap Activity Projects was founded in the UK and later renamed Lattitude Global Volunteering in 2008.
Re'eh
Re'eh, Reeh, R'eih, or Ree ( — Hebrew for "see", the first word in the parashah) is the 47th weekly Torah portion (, "parashah") in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Deuteronomy. It constitutes In the parashah, Moses set before the Israelites the choice between blessing and curse. Moses instructed the Israelites in the laws that they were to observe, including the law of a single centralized place of worship. Moses warned against following other gods and their prophets and set forth the laws of kashrut, tithes, the Sabbatical year, the Hebrew slave, firstborn animals, and the three pilgrim festivals.
Behar
Behar, BeHar, Be-har, or B'har ( — Hebrew for "on the mount," the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 32nd weekly Torah portion (, "parashah") in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Leviticus. The parashah tells the laws of the Sabbatical year (, "Shmita") and limits on debt servitude. The parashah constitutes It is the shortest of the weekly Torah portions in the Book of Leviticus (although not the shortest in the Torah), and is made up of 2,817 Hebrew letters, 737 Hebrew words, and 57 verses, and can occupy about 99 lines in a Torah Scroll (, "Sefer Torah").
Mishpatim
Mishpatim ( — Hebrew for "laws," the second word of the parashah) is the eighteenth weekly Torah portion (, "parashah") in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the Book of Exodus. The parashah sets out a series of laws, which some scholars call the Covenant Code, and reports the people's acceptance of the covenant with God. The parashah constitutes The parashah is made up of 5,313 Hebrew letters, 1,462 Hebrew words, and 118 verses, and can occupy about 185 lines in a Torah scroll (, "Sefer Torah"). Jews read it the eighteenth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in February or, rarely, in late January.
Shmita
The sabbath year ("shmita" , literally "release") also called the sabbatical year or "shǝvi'it" (, literally "seventh") is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the Land of Israel, and still observed in contemporary Judaism. During "shmita", the land is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity, including plowing, planting, pruning and harvesting, is forbidden by "halakha" (Jewish law). Other cultivation techniques (such as watering, fertilizing, weeding, spraying, trimming and mowing) may be performed as a preventive measure only, not to improve the growth of trees or other plants.
1_Apprentice
I'm not familiar with gap years - can you tell me how they would be useful to someone?