sabbatical year in English

noun
1
a year's sabbatical leave.
This week Askea Parish wishes Fr John Fitzpatrick well as he leaves to begin a sabbatical year .
2
(in biblical times) a year observed every seventh year under the Mosaic law as a “sabbath” during which the land was allowed to rest.
One miracle that the land exhibited was that every six years there was a bumper crop so that the Jews could take the seventh year - the sabbatical year - off from labor.

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1. Grandmother Agre died, and Dad decided to take a sabbatical year at the University of California

2. Following a sabbatical year where Ali worked for Gavin Report, he enrolled in New York University's graduate acting program at Tisch School of the Arts, earning his master's degree in 2000.

3. Contemporary charity is regarded as a continuation of the Biblical Maaser Ani, or poor-tithe, as well as Biblical practices, such as permitting the poor to glean the corners of a field and harvest during the Shmita (Sabbatical year).

4. Creditors » Exacting debts from brethren during sabbatical year Deuteronomy 15:2-3 "This is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD'S remission has been proclaimed.