New from the SOVA blog by Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair Original post can be found at http://sovaproject.org/2013/08/19/shmita-as-a-force-for-social-change/ In October 2007, at the outset of the last Shmita year, I was interviewed…
by Yigal Deutscher There is a saying by the Rabbis, ‘Those who prepare before Shabbat will eat on Shabbat; those who did not prepare before Shabbat, what will they have…
New from the SOVA blog by Rabbi Natan Margalit of Organic Torah Original post can be found at http://sovaproject.org/2013/08/05/shmita-the-rhythms-of-life/ What can we, in our present moment of great environmental, social…
This post was written by Aharon Varady, of OpenSiddur.org, in honor of the ancient tradition of a Jewish New Year for Animals, which was counted on the new moon of…
New from the SOVA blog by Rabbi Arthur Wasow of the Shalom Center Original post can be found at http://sovaproject.org/2013/07/22/sacred-work-sacred-rest-free-time-for-a-free-people/ “Six days shall you labor and do all your work;…
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow On July 1, with Congress having failed to pass any legislation about student loans, the interest rate on them doubled. As Senator Elizabeth Warren pointed out:…
by Yigal Deutscher This past week, the Urban Adamah farm in Berkeley installed an aquaponics gardening system in their greenhouse. Aquaponics is a soil-free farming system that combines hydroponics (growing…
New from the SOVA blog by Rabbi Ebn Leader and Rabbi Margie Klein. Original post can be found at http://sovaproject.org/2013/07/08/the-land-shall-rest-exploring-shmita-in-the-diaspora/ In the Jewish calendar, the next Shmita year will commence in 2014,…
New from the SOVA blog by Judith Rosenbaum Original post can be found at http://sovaproject.org/2013/06/21/leaning-in-to-work-and-rest/ Like most people following the news over the past few months, I’ve been thinking about what…
The Shmita narrative is one that is founded upon great social ideals and values; as we begin to learn about the holistic, integrated models that Shmita is encouraging, the only…
by Yigal Deutscher At the core of many of the Shmita values is this sense that we do not own our resources; that, in fact, the resources we call ours…
During the Behar campaign to raise Shmita awareness on a local level, one of the models we suggested was to organize a community leadership council. The goal would be to gather together…
The following post by Rabbi Mordechai Liebling is cross-posted from the Sova Project blog. Studying the Torah laws about debt forgiveness (Shmita) can help us understand how to bring about…
This post originally comes from the SOVA Project blog, from May 7, 2013 Written by Adina Allen, a rabbinical student at Hebrew College. In his book To Take Place: Toward Theory…
It is with pleasure that Hazon, the Shmita Project, and the Siach Network are now partnering with the SOVA blog, a new initiative to further raise awareness around Shmita. SOVA is…
Shmita, literally translated as the ‘Year of Release’ and more widely known as the Sabbatical Year, is a biblical tradition, which, once every seven years simultaneously re-adjusted agriculture and commerce on…