#I also learned about shatez as a chock

[krindor]

Another example is the shmita year (letting fields lay fallow one in every seven years).

Cereals drain nitrogen from soil, and legumes replenish them, and people in the Middle East had been rotating planting crops in a field between the two since at least 6000 bce.

However, leaving fields fallow for a time also helps them replenish, as later systems such as the European three-field system show (x)

Biblical law often works in broad strokes, so the suggestion of “don’t farm a field once every 7 years” became a national ban on farming once every 7 years, possibly also because the rabbis weren’t farmers.

listen to me very very closely: the biblical prohibition against mixing linen and wool is the most SENSIBLE THING IN THE WORLD, do not write it off as silly, unreasonable, or unnecessary. g-d didn’t tell us not to mix linen and wool for no reason, g-d told us not to mix linen and wool together because mixing them is an affront to textiles