Question: What is the name of the festival year which is celebrated every 50th year in Jewish tradition?
Answer: The year of Jubilee. (Leviticus 25)
Comments: The year of Jubilee is described in Leviticus 25. It is the year at the end of a seven cycles of Sabbatical years. The year of Jubilee was to be treated like a Sabbatical year, with the land lying fallow, but also required the return of all property to its original owners or their heirs, except the houses of laymen within walled cities, in addition to the freeing of all Israelite indentured servants. It was to be a fresh start for all.
"'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.'" (Levitcus 25:10, NASB)
Though Jubilee is referenced in three chapters of the Bible (Leviticus 25, 27; Numbers 36) at no point in the Biblical record is it acknowledged as having been practiced.
Note: This image of the "Proclamation of Jubilee" was created by Paul Hardy.
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