universe, Who has sanctified us by Thy commandments, and
commanded us to separate the _challah_." The ninth treatise
of the _Order Zeraim_ of the _Mishnah_ is called _Challah._
See Friedlander, _Jewish Religion_, p. 357.

(30) The execution of which is in the hands of God.

(31) That is, the Sabbatical year or the year of release
(_ha-shemittah_). See Ex. XXIII, 10 _et seq._, and Lev. XXV,
1-7. It is commanded that the land be allowed to lie fallow
during that year, that there be no sowing, nor reaping, nor
pruning of the vineyards, and that the servants, strangers,
and animals, as well as the owner, shall share in the
spontaneous growth of the fields and the vineyards. See also
Deut. XV, 1-11, and _Tractate Shebiit_ of the _Mishnah_.

(32) _I.e._, war.

(33) By prohibiting the permissible and permitting the
prohibited.

(34) Cf. chapter IV, 9.

(35) Cf. chapter IV, 5.

(36) See Deut. XIV, 28, 29; XXVI, 12, and also above, chapter
I, n. 37.

(37) Of the septennial cycle. The tithe was to be brought at
the end of _every_ three years.