For those who ardently keep God's Laws, the year of release (Deuteronomy 15:1-2), the land Sabbath, and the subsequent Jubilee, with the cancellation of debts and freedom from indentured (slavery) servitude, are joyous blessings, but for those who ignore or reject these laws, the Shemitah presents itself as a grave curse—a veritable shaking loose, flinging or throwing down, and jostling, leading to horrendous destruction. The rhythms or the heartbeat of the Shemitah are just as significant as the weekly and annual Sabbath cycles. Because the children of Jacob have spurned the Eternal's years of release, they have reaped a whirlwind of curses, including crop failure, devastating stock market crashes and financial reverses, pestilence, and mental disease, scattering, deportation, and captivity. In America, the greatest financial disasters, such as the Crash (or Great Depression of 1929-1932), the recession of 1937-1938, and the Great recession of 2007-2008, the destruction of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, and the recent pandemic have all occurred on the anniversary of the Shemitah, indicating God's displeasure with modern Israel's apostasy and disobedience of the Eternal's Year of Release. The rebellious children of Jacob have tried to meet this curse by printing phony worthless money, cursing the people with more debt through a Weimar style hyper-inflation. Disaster falls on a nation which snubs the Eternal's Year of Release—the Shemitah. God's people must diligently put their own houses in order, aligning themselves with the heartbeat and rhythm of God's Year of Release.