Jubilee: The Cure For What Ails Us

On the so-called "Liberty Bell" in Philadelphia, PA is the following inscription:

Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV X
By Order of the ASSEMBLY of the Province of PENSYLVANIA for the State House in Philada
Pass and Stow
Philada
MDCCLIII

http://www.nps.gov/inde/liberty-bell-center.htm

However, that quote from the Book of Leviticus is incomplete. A fuller version reads as follows:

8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

Leviticus 25:8-13 KJV

As you can see, this Biblical imperative is indeed related to liberty ... but liberty in the context of jubile (or jubilee in modern English). And what is jubilee, you may ask?

The Jubilee (Hebrew yovel יובל) year is the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years), and according to Biblical regulations had a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel; there is some debate whether it was the 49th year (the last year of seven sabbatical cycles, referred to as the Sabbath's Sabbath), or whether it was the following (50th) year. Jubilee deals largely with land, property, and property rights. According to Leviticus, slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.

The biblical rules concerning Sabbatical years (shmita) are still observed by many religious Jews in the State of Israel, but the regulations for the Jubilee year have not been observed for many centuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)

In fact, many Jews have asked the question "when will we start observing Jubilee?"

The answer to this question is the same in Israel and in the United States. Even though this is what G-d wants us to do, and even though jubilee is the Biblical basis for so-called American "liberty", the bankgangsters, corporations, and their accomplices in the one percent enjoy a lavish lifestyle which would come to an end if jubilee were to be observed. They and the false rabbis, priests, and ministers who tolerate their refusal to follow G-d's law have no intention of ever observing jubilee.

But if We The People want to take our country back and have a chance to recapture the American Dream, jubilee is where we should start. It is the cure for what ails us.

Empty our prisons, forgive our debts, and let the mercies of G-d flow through the land like milk and honey.