Tag: Dvar Torah

yesAs industrialized nations produce more and more food each year, the earth itself is in peril, for true abundance requires rest....

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

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...

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...

yesThis essay explores the possibility that perhaps the whole purpose of the Covenant at Sinai was to create a society that observed Shmita, and that...

yesRabbi Micha Odenheimer calls attention to the potency and profound need of Shmita, and challenges us to begin exploring this vision however we can, as...

yesThis short article by Jeremy Benstein is a glimpse into a chapter about Shmita in his book, The Way into Judaism and the Environment (Jewish...