This severe penalty could not have been inflicted, if the rabbis had not represented that Jews were not permitted to violate the sabbatical laws in order to relieve a fellow-man.
"Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ"
Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
There's a fellow on board named Arthur Brown, who has his sister Emily with him; they're both unmarried, and well over thirty, teachers in a small Western college, and are starting out on their "sabbatical year."
"The Old Gray Homestead"
Frances Parkinson Keyes
By the Jewish law property in immovables was only a temporary concession; on the sabbatical year it returned to the common stock to be redistributed; though we may surmise that in the historical times of the Jewish state this rule may have been successfully evaded.
"Socialism"
John Stuart Mill