What little I know is ( quoting from that same website) that "Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, falls on the Hebrew calendar dates of 1 and 2 Tishrei."
The year ends on the last day of the twelveth month on Elul 29.
A Wiki definition for "Smita":
The sabbath year (shmita Hebrew: שמיטה, literally "release") also called the sabbatical year or sheviit (Hebrew: שביעית, literally "seventh") is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the Land of Israel,[1] and still observed in contemporary Judaism.This is all I've learned about these things that have been, and mostly still are, beyond my experience, education and understanding.
Thanks for helping me catch up.
Fwiw, these last two cycles, 2001 and 2008, have given these things a legitimacy previously as unknown to me as the Shemitah year itself had been.
Taken altogether, based upon recent experience, these ideas make this quote "real" for me also:
Just as written in God’s revelation to Moses, the catastrophe was total. Nothing was held back. We kept at our sinning, never giving you a second thought, oblivious to your clear warning, and so you had no choice but to let the disaster loose on us in full force. You, our God, had a perfect right to do this since we persistently and defiantly ignored you.Now I also understand "Fear of God" as I never did before.
Daniel 9:13-14
The Jewish new year was changed from the Biblical new year after they were dispersed from Jerusalem.
What Jews (Pharisees) do, does not control Yehova’s clock.
Remember also that they are blinded by Yehova until all the lost sheep of the House of Israel are gathered. Judah is but a small percentage of Israel.
We are all searching for the fullness of Yehova’s word, that is often not fully revealed in English Bibles, so don’t feel like the lone ranger.
Shemitta will begin at sundown on March 22, this year.
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