07-20-2020, 01:51 AM
Shalom, Carlos.
It's yovel (not yobel) or simply jubilee, and Israeli farmers do observe shmitah.
When something really bad happens, hindsight allows people to look back on it and create theories about its causes. The fall of the Temple and the loss of the war with Rome was a game changer for the Jewish people, and those who wanted to explain it came up with several things to blame. It was "sin'at chinam" because the Jewish people had become so sectarian. It was because they were not observing the shmitah cycle. It was because the religious leaders had killed Yaakov haTsadik (James the Just), who was greatly respected among the people. There were lots of claims made. It's like Pat Robertson claiming that Hurricane Katrina came through and wiped out New Orleans because the United States had become lax regarding the prohibition of homosexuality.
Why did Israel lose the war against Rome? Because Rome was a power house! No one in their right mind would attempt an uprising against Rome and expect to win. The Temple was destroyed because the people had begun to allow for zealots and rebels to pop up right and left, because they had stirred up messianic fervor and thought that God was going to bring about the end of the Roman occupancy. It had nothing to do with sin'at chinam or with shmitah. It had to do with insurrectionists pissing off the powers that be to the point that they sent in an army to smash them. That's what happened, and blaming it on other things is just an attempt at excessive piety and scapegoating.
It's yovel (not yobel) or simply jubilee, and Israeli farmers do observe shmitah.
When something really bad happens, hindsight allows people to look back on it and create theories about its causes. The fall of the Temple and the loss of the war with Rome was a game changer for the Jewish people, and those who wanted to explain it came up with several things to blame. It was "sin'at chinam" because the Jewish people had become so sectarian. It was because they were not observing the shmitah cycle. It was because the religious leaders had killed Yaakov haTsadik (James the Just), who was greatly respected among the people. There were lots of claims made. It's like Pat Robertson claiming that Hurricane Katrina came through and wiped out New Orleans because the United States had become lax regarding the prohibition of homosexuality.
Why did Israel lose the war against Rome? Because Rome was a power house! No one in their right mind would attempt an uprising against Rome and expect to win. The Temple was destroyed because the people had begun to allow for zealots and rebels to pop up right and left, because they had stirred up messianic fervor and thought that God was going to bring about the end of the Roman occupancy. It had nothing to do with sin'at chinam or with shmitah. It had to do with insurrectionists pissing off the powers that be to the point that they sent in an army to smash them. That's what happened, and blaming it on other things is just an attempt at excessive piety and scapegoating.