Why does the Torah repeat "Yovel hi Sh'nas ha'Chamishim Shanah"?
Rashi and Riva (citing Rosh Hashanah 9a): To teach us that the fiftieth year is Kadosh, but not the fifty-first. 1
Ramban #1: Refer to 25:10:5.5:1. The Torah is now adding that the sole objective of the fiftieth year is that it should be 'Yovel' - that one should desist from planting and from reaping, and that, above all, everyone should return to his possession, in fulfillment of the word "Yovel", according to its literal meaning.
Ramban #2 (according to Kabalah): Refer to 25:10:3:2.
Seforno: To teach us that Yovel cuts two ways, inasmuch as, just as the fields are uprooted from the ownership of the purchasers, so too, they are uprooted from the ownership of the sellers, to become Hefker for the duration of the year.
Rosh Hashanah, 9a #1: The word "HI" implies that the fiftieth year is Yovel and not the fifty-first - which is the first year of the next cycle of Sh'mitos ? independent of the Yovel. 2
Rosh Hashanah, 9b #2: To teach us that the fiftieth year is Yovel ? regarding the prohibition agaimst planting and other issues, only if they keep the three above-mentioned issues ? blowing the Shofar on Yom Kipur, sending away their Avadim Ivrim and leaving the land fallow. 3
To preclude from the notion that, just as one adds Kedushah at the beginning of the Sh'mitah, so too, does one add Kedushah at the end'.
Following the opinion of the Rabbanan of R. Yehudah, who hold that the Yovel is not the part of the cycle. See Torah Temimah, note 60.
See Oznayim la'Torah, who discusses the question of how many people need to retain their Avadim Ivrim in order to negate the Dinim of Yovel.
What are the connotations of "ve'Lo Sivtz'ru es Nezirehah"?
Rashi: It means that one is forbidden to harvest the grapes that have been guarded, 1 only those that are Hefker. 2
Ramban: Refer to 25:5:4:2.
Rashbam, Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan: It means that one may not harvest the grapes that have fallen off the vines.
Sifra: The latter half of the Pasuk teaches us that all the Dinim of Sh'mitah that are coinnected with the land apply to Yovel as well. 3
Rashi: In the same way as the Torah stated by Sh'mitah. It transpires that there are two consecutive years of Kedushah, the forty-ninth, which is Sh'mitah, and the fiftieth, which is Yovel. See Torah Temimah, note 61, who elaborates.
It is not clear as to why Rashi does not comment on "ve'Lo Siktz'ru es Sefichehah."
See Torah Tmimah, note 61.
