Tag: Sabbatical

Shmita and surviving a year in Israel without starving as the land rests

Shmita is a Jewish way to let the land rest once every 7 years. For Jewish Israelis it's a...

The Shmita year and its connection to the environment

Thousands of years before green became hot, the Jewish people were observing the Shmitta, or shmita, a sabbatical year. The...