The Three Mitzvos
How many mitzvos are in this unit?
Three
On what day did the Sanhedrin count out loud each year?
Rosh Hashanah
On what day did the Sanhedrin gather to sanctify the yovel year?
Yom Kippur
Where did the Sanhedrin blow the shofar?
In the Beis Hamikdash
A Jewish slave must be allowed to go free after how many years?
Six years
Who must count the seven years of shmittah?
The Beis Din (the Sanhedrin)
What did the Sanhedrin make before counting the years?
A brachah
Mekudeshes hashanah! means what?
The year is sanctified!
Who blew the shofar after the Sanhedrin?
All the Jews in Eretz Yisrael
What sound signaled freedom for all the Jewish slaves?
The shofar blown on Yom Kippur
Seven shmittos add up to how many years?
49 years
In the first year they said: Today is ___ year to yovel.
One
The produce in yovel follows the same halachos as which other year?
The shmittah year
How many sounds were blown from the shofar?
Nine
The slaves stopped working on which day (but did not go home yet)?
Rosh Hashanah of the yovel year
What must happen to all the slaves in the yovel year?
They must be freed
In this unit, a shavu'ah means a period of seven what?
Seven years
The produce of the land is declared what (ownerless)?
Hefker
These nine sounds are just like the ones we blow on which day?
Rosh Hashanah
Were Jewish slaves outside Eretz Yisrael also set free?
Yes - every Jewish slave was freed
On what day is the shofar blown in the yovel year?
Yom Kippur
Counting the yovel was a mitzvah only for whom?
The Sanhedrin (not every Jew)
The yovel is which year in the cycle?
The 50th year
Did a person have to blow the shofar in front of the Beis Din?
No - every Jew was obligated to blow
The shofar also announced that what was returned to its original owner?
Land