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If, as it seems, the actual counting towards the Yovel is a mitzvah. This is the Mishne Torah as translated and noted on sefaria: It is a positive commandment to count sets of seven years *Sefer...
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2025-05-08T11:15:32Z (1 day ago)
A bracha for the mitzvah of counting
If, as it seems, the actual counting towards the Yovel is a mitzvah. This is the Mishne Torah as translated and noted on sefaria: > It is a positive commandment to count sets of seven years *Sefer HaMitzvot (positive commandment 140) and Sefer HaChinuch (mitzvah 330) includes the commandment to count the sets of years among the 613 mitzvot of the Torah. As the Rambam states in Sefer HaMitzvot the mitzvah is not to count a 50 year cycle, but rather to count seven sets of seven year cycles. and to sanctify the fiftieth year, *Sefer HaMitzvot (positive commandment 136) and Sefer HaChinuch (mitzvah 332) includes the commandment to sanctify the fiftieth year among the 613 mitzvot of the Torah. In Sefer HaMitzvot, the Rambam explains that the sanctification of the year is reflected in considering the produce of that year ownerless. as [Leviticus 25:8-10] states: "And you shall count seven years for yourselves... and you shall sanctify the fiftieth year." These two mitzvot are entrusted to the High Court *The Sanhedrin, the court of 71 judges which served as Judaism's supreme Rabbinic authority. alone. *I.e., their fulfillment is not incumbent on each person individually, but on the people as a whole, and hence, on the High Court, who acts as their agent." This counting was parallel to the omer counting, as per the sefer hachinuch and others -- "And the commandment is such that they would count each year and each cycle of seven years until the Jubilee year, like we count the days of the omer." Was there a bracha for this counting and what would its wording have been?