The idea of Sabbath comes from the Creation story … on the seventh day God rested. So once a week we have a Sabbath. But it was extended to include every seventh year … a time to let the fields go fallow as a means of restoration. In the book of Deuteronomy we have the concept of Jubilee … a Sabbath of Sabbaths. That is, every fifty years … seven Sabbath years … every fifty years would be a Jubilee year. In the reading from Isaiah this morning we hear about Jubilee.
