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Excerpt from The Sabbath It was for this reason that the period of service of any Hebrew who sold himself because of dire distress was limited to six years. The seventh year was his Sabbatical year, on which he regained his liberty. It was, moreover, the duty of his relatives, and, if sold to a Gentile, the duty of the whole Jewish community, to ransom him. If he himself, for any private reason, preferred to continue his servile work in Spite of his Sabbatical year, he was publicly disgraced and branded as a slave. And even he was set free par force in the year of Jubilee, the seven times hallowed Sabbatical year. For, says the Lord, unto Me the children of Israel are servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt (lev. Xxv. Not the servants of servants, explain the Rabbis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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