[א] "וקדשתם את שנת החמשים שנה" מה תלמוד לומר? לפי שנאמר "בעשור לחדש", יכול אין שנה מתקדשת אלא בעשור לחדש? כשהוא אומר "וקדשתם את שנת החמשים שנה" מלמד שהיא מתקדשת מראש השנה. אמר ר' יוחנן בן ברוקה, לא היו עבדים משועבדים נפטרים לבתיהם ולא שדות חוזרות לבעליהם אלא אוכלים ושותים ושמחים ועטרותיהם בראשיהם עד שהגיע יום הכפורים. הגיע יום הכפורים – תקעו שופר, חזרו שדות לבעליהם ועבדים נפטרים לבתיהם.
1) (Vayikra 25:10) ("And you shall make holy the fiftieth year, and you shall call out freedom (dror) in the land to all of its inhabitants. It is a Jubilee year (Yovel); it shall be for you. And you shall return a man to his possession, and a man to his family you shall return.") "And you shall make holy (lit.,) the fiftieth year, year": What is the intent of this (seemingly superfluous) "year"? Because it is written (Vayikra 25:9) "on the tenth of the month," I might think that the year is sanctified from the tenth of the month (Yom Kippur); it is, therefore, written "the fiftieth year, year," whereby we are apprised that it is sanctified from the beginning of the year (Rosh Hashanah). R. Yochanan b. Berokah said: (From Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur) bondsmen would neither be bound to their masters nor free (to return) to their homes, nor would fields revert to their (ancestral) owners. But they would eat and drink and rejoice with their crowns on their heads until Yom Kippur arrived. When Yom Kippur arrived, they (beth-din) would blow the shofar — whereupon fields would revert to their owners and bondsmen would be free (to return) to their homes.
[א] "וקדשתם את שנת החמשים שנה" מה תלמוד לומר? לפי שנאמר "בעשור לחדש", יכול אין שנה מתקדשת אלא בעשור לחדש? כשהוא אומר "וקדשתם את שנת החמשים שנה" מלמד שהיא מתקדשת מראש השנה. אמר ר' יוחנן בן ברוקה, לא היו עבדים משועבדים נפטרים לבתיהם ולא שדות חוזרות לבעליהם אלא אוכלים ושותים ושמחים ועטרותיהם בראשיהם עד שהגיע יום הכפורים. הגיע יום הכפורים – תקעו שופר, חזרו שדות לבעליהם ועבדים נפטרים לבתיהם.
1) (Vayikra 25:10) ("And you shall make holy the fiftieth year, and you shall call out freedom (dror) in the land to all of its inhabitants. It is a Jubilee year (Yovel); it shall be for you. And you shall return a man to his possession, and a man to his family you shall return.") "And you shall make holy (lit.,) the fiftieth year, year": What is the intent of this (seemingly superfluous) "year"? Because it is written (Vayikra 25:9) "on the tenth of the month," I might think that the year is sanctified from the tenth of the month (Yom Kippur); it is, therefore, written "the fiftieth year, year," whereby we are apprised that it is sanctified from the beginning of the year (Rosh Hashanah). R. Yochanan b. Berokah said: (From Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur) bondsmen would neither be bound to their masters nor free (to return) to their homes, nor would fields revert to their (ancestral) owners. But they would eat and drink and rejoice with their crowns on their heads until Yom Kippur arrived. When Yom Kippur arrived, they (beth-din) would blow the shofar — whereupon fields would revert to their owners and bondsmen would be free (to return) to their homes.