[Avodah] Shehecheyanu for shmitta

[Gershon Dubin]

From: "Richard Wolpoe" <rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com>

<<Given: Shmittas kesafim takes place at the END of the Shmittah year
Q1: WHEN we would say this shehecheyanu?    Would we say the shehecheyanu at
the beginning of the year or at the end?>>

As R"H comes in, similar to how we say Shehecheyanu on Yom Kippur.  Being doche it to kiddush doesn't mean it's not on the Yom Tov;  the Gemara paskens that you say it afilu beshuk if you missed saying it with kiddush/at the beginning of Y"T.

Bottom line, it's a kedusha that is chal with the advent of that day (R"H) so the beracha is appropriate.

Gershon
gershon.dubin at juno.com