Jubilee Year

According to <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08531c.htm>, aka Volume VIII of The Catholic Encyclopedia, “the year of Jubilee was... preeminently a time of joy, the year of remission or universal pardon.” The concept stemmed from Leviticus 25:10 of the Old Testament which stated, “Thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee.” The term or derivation of the word is disputed, but probably related to the Hebrew word jobel, which meant “a ram’s horn” -- which fits in terms of an instrument to proclaim the celebration for rejoicing.

Herbert Thurston, writing in The Catholic Encyclopedia, goes on to state, “Every seventh year, like every seventh day, was always accounted holy and set aside for rest, but the year which followed seven complete cycles was to be kept as a sabbatical year of special solemnity. The Talmudists and others afterwards disputed whether the Jubilee Year was the forty-ninth or the fiftieth year, the difficulty being that in the latter case two sabbatical years must have been observed in succession.”

Separately, Gabriel Oussani, <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08534a.htm> writes that “According to the Pentateuchal legislation contained in Leviticus, a Jubilee year is the year that follows immediately seven successive Sabbatic years (the Sabbatic year being the seventh year of a seven-year cycle). Accordingly, the Jubilee year takes place at the end of seven times seven years, i.e. at the end of every forty-nine years, or the fiftieth."

The institution of the Jubilee-year system is thus an extension of the Sabbatic-year where at the end of every six years there is a Sabbatic year, and that at the end of seven Sabbatic years, there is a Jubilee year. The Jubilee Year is thus the fiftieth year, such that at the end of each forty-eight years there occur two consecutive fallow years, i.e. the forty-ninth and the fiftieth. Also, the Jubilee Year is based on itself absolutely, such that if, for example, the year 2000 is Jubilee Year, and a debt had been occurred in 1960 (or 1933), then the debt was to be waived not in 2010, but in 2000 (while the 1933 debt should have already been waived in 1950) -- either case in the appointed year of Jubilee.

The Christians (the Catholic Church) subsequently adopted the Jubilee period as the fiftieth year as well -- dependent upon Leviticus 25:8-55 -- and thus the Jubilee year was to be celebrated as the recovery of every household’s absent members, the return of land to its former owners, the emancipation of slaves, and the remittance of all debts.

It is not clear what form of continuity existed between the Jewish and Christian Jubilees, and it has been assumed that the first Christian Jubilee was in the year 1300 (ostensibly proclaimed by Pope Boniface VIII in response to statements of aged pilgrims who claimed that great indulgences had been granted to all pilgrims in Rome a hundred years prior). There is some speculation that Boniface VIII had intended that the Jubilee be celebrated only once every hundred years, but eventually Pope Clement VI was made to realize that the average span of human life was sufficiently short as to render it impossible for many to hope to see any Jubilee in their own generation. Clement then did the expedient thing in 1350 of making this a Jubilee year in its own right. Subsequent Christian Jubilee years were initiated at various times (other than every fifty years), but the sequence eventually reduced itself to a twenty five year period as the predominant form.

But in the Hebrew tradition, the 50 year rule stands. Just as the seven Days of the Week end on the seventh day with the Sabbath.

The magical quality of seven and Sabbatical thinking has resulted in modern times in the tradition (and legality) of any individual being limited to taking bankruptcy only once every seven years. Furthermore, at the end of an additional seven years, the bankruptcy is removed from the public record (although credit bureaus regularly ignore this in lieu of keeping it on the books for a longer period of time).

But other possibilities can be truly mind-boggling. For example, it might not seem like a big deal initially, but there is a curious aspect of fundamental law which disallows new law from contradicting older law. Thus if the 50 year rule is truly law (and all subsequent law which contradicts it, automatically null and void), then all debts incurred prior to less than fifty years ago -- no matter when the actual Jubilee year is (the year 2000 or otherwise) -- then all such debts entered into then are already remitted.

Applying this law to the US Bankruptcy and its aftermath -- including The Decree, the need for Emergency War Powers, Executive Orders and the like -- it becomes apparent that ancient law dictates that The Federal Reserve and its financial hold over the people of the United States is no longer legal! The United States’s national debt is remitted! All those credit card debts are, at some point in absolute reckoning, reduced to zero!

All of this might easily be a reason for Jubilation! (Not to mention a legal and moral way of balancing the books on the machinations of international banksters.) Perhaps it is truly time to pull out the old Ram’s Horn and party hardy!!

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