Venue: Boyaner Shtiebel (New York, NY) Boyaner Shtiebel (New York, NY)

Halacha:

Shemittah 

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Are shemittah and yovel biblical today? How many years separate each yovel? Give a case where the Ra'avad paskins like the Rambam, but the Rambam paskins against his own opinion? On which year of the shemittah cycle, did the churban bayis sheini take place? Does a beis din need to declare the year as a shemittah year? Who wrote the Targum Yonasan on chumash? When was the heter mechira first done? Which three laws are learned from Lo Sechaneim? Give examples of ein shaliach l'dvar aveira? Can a person whom doesn't agree with the heter mechira, eat fruit from heter mechira? Is there a mitzvah to eat shemittah produce? Why is it problematic to sell all of the fields in Israel to a gentile? Can amira l'akum on shabbos be biblical?