Category: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual

yesA halachic look at shmita and kosher laws....

yesTorah Umesorah Brooklyn Teacher Center presents a rich, multifaceted Shemitta Curriculum for upper elementary grades. Includes a complete curriculum, student calendar, professional video and captivating...

yesA conceptual view of shmita from Yeshivat Gush Etzion...

yesA compilation of sources on healing the planet....

yesThe practice of letting the land lie fallow after every six years of farming requires a complete reset in sustainable practices-and could gain traction as...

yesRabbi Dani Passow offers a glimpse into the sacred practice of rest and how integral this is to a holistic relationship with Torah...

yesA halachic look at shmita, kosher laws, and how it impacts the Diaspora....

yesThrough 60 pages of poetic visioning and illustrations, Yigal Deutscher weaves language and art into a Shmita dreamscape, exploring foundational questions: What is the...

yesThis collection of sources was prepared to accompany a class that was part of the series Understanding Shmita, presented by Hazon and 929 English....

yesThe Year of Release, or Shmita, is a practice rooted in Torah and halachically required only in the Land of Israel. However, as many aspects...

yesRabbi Shai Held joined Shmita Project Northwest on 4/13/21 to discuss the Book of Devarim (Deuteronomy). Despite our usual associations of Shemitah (the Sabbatical year)...

yesThis essay offers an in-depth mystical reading of the Shmita Cycle from within the spiritual Torah perspective (exerpt from Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman's book on...

yesJewish observance of shmita (alternatively spelled shemitah)-the sabbatical year, or seventh (sheviit) year-is changing. Historically rooted in agriculture, modern Jewish environmentalists are seizing upon the...

yesJoin Rabbis Avram Reisner and Nina Beth Cardin to learn about the most important mitzvah you never heard of: yishuv ha-olam, the command to sustain...

yesThis essay by Rabbi David Seidenberg, first printed in Tikkun magazine in 2008, explores how the Jubilee and our connection to land, in particular, can...

yesPart of Shmita Project Northwest's speaker series. Join Nigel Savage, founder and CEO of Hazon, for a creative and engaging learning experience examining core texts...