my thoughts:
1. they should have kept shmitta. then this damage would have been lessened, or it wouldnt even matter.
2. don't these farmers know that come October the weather changes and rain begins to fall? How come every time it rains we have to hear about how much damage it did to crops - don't the farmers expect and prepare for rain? don't they own a Farmer's Almanac?
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The rain causes damage to farmers who DO keep shemitta. Because of shemitta the farmers plant early, before rosh hashana. This is a high risk thing to do, because early rain can ruin what was planted (I don't fully understand why, but have heard this a number of times from farmers).
ReplyDeleteinteresting. so they gambled and lost.
Deletein that case, maybe Hashem's telling us to pasken like the Rambam on sfichin!
Delete"They should have kept Shabbos. Then they wouldn't have gotten into that car accident..."
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Come on, this kind of "hindsight is 20/20" religious-guilt argumentation is beneath you!
I didnt mean it that way - as keeping shmitta would be a segula for protection from the rains. I meant they shouldve kept shmitta, as it is shmitta now and they shouldnt be working the land. as well, keeping shmitta would mean they mafkired the field and the loss wouldnt be theirs, as well as the fact that they would not have planted crops to get ruined..
ReplyDelete6 million shekels in damage is really negligible but it's nice to pump up the number so that they can claim damage to the agricultural insurance. I don't think it has much to do about the period of time because stuff is in the earth all year round, but rather anytime there is a downpour, it will do damage.
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