remission of debts

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• remission — re|mis|sion [rıˈmıʃən] n 1.) [U and C] a period when a serious illness improves for a time in remission ▪ The chemotherapy was successful, and she is now in remission. ▪ The cancer has gone into remission . 2.) [U and C] BrE a reduction of the… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• SABBATICAL YEAR AND JUBILEE — (Heb. שְׁמִטָּה, shemittah; יוֹבֵל, yovel). According to the Bible, during the seventh year all land had to be fallow and debts were to be remitted (Ex. 23:10–11; Lev. 25:1–7, 18–22; Deut. 15:1–11). The close of seven sabbatical cycles instituted …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• HURRIAN — The term Hurrian denotes a language of the ancient Near East and the people who spoke it. The core area inhabited by Hurrian speaking people was the region of the upper Ñabur and Tigris Rivers, together with the piedmont beyond, extending into… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• BANKING AND BANKERS — Antiquity There is little likelihood that financial transactions played a prominent role in the pre Exilic epoch in Ereẓ Israel; according to the ethos of Jewish society, then founded on a pronounced agrarian structure, lending was part of the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• MAJORCA — (Sp. Mallorca), largest and most important of the Balearic Isles. It is difficult to determine when Jews first arrived in Majorca, but it may be assumed that the settlement was ancient because of the island s location at the crossroads of the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Phöbus — mdash; Ein Journal für die Kunst was a literary journal published by Heinrich von Kleist and Adam Heinrich Müller in Dresden between January 1808 and December 1808, in twelve issues grouped into nine instalments. Many of Kleist s most famous… …   Wikipedia

• STRANGERS AND GENTILES — Ancient Israel was acquainted with two classes of strangers, resident aliens and foreigners who considered their sojourn in the land more or less temporary. The latter were referred to as zarim (זָרִים) or nokhrim (נָכְרִים), terms generally… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Pasiphaë — In Greek mythology, Pasiphaë (English IPAEng|pəˈsɪfeɪiː, Greek: Πασιφάη Pasipháē), wide shining [An attribute of the Moon: compare Euryphaessa; if Pasipháē is an ancient conventional Minoan epithet translated into Greek, it would be a loan… …   Wikipedia

• DEUTERONOMY — (Heb. םירָבד רֶפס, Sefer Devarim, short for סֵפֶר וְאֵלֶה הַדּבָרִים, Sefer ve elleh ha devarim, The Book of These Are the Words ), the fifth book of the Pentateuch. The name Deuteronomy is derived from the Greek translation of מִשְׁנֶה הַתּוֹרָה …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• MUNICH — (Heb. עיר הכמרים), capital of bavaria , central Germany. In 1229 a Jew called Abraham, from Munich, appeared as a witness at a Regensburg trial. In the second half of the 13th century Munich appears to have had a sizable Jewish community; the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• POVERTY — Distinctions between rich and poor predate recorded history. In Israel, however, these differences do not seem to have become pronounced until the eighth century B.C.E., following the social revolution produced by the monarchy and the dissolution …   Encyclopedia of Judaism