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The Shmita year began on Rosh Hashanah 2021. Join me as we go on a journey through the yearly Torah cycle as it relates to Shmita. While Shmita is only one-year of a seven-year cycle, its values present the core of the Torah's vision of a society that opposes the concentration of wealth and power, and promotes justice, equity, and chesed, lovingkindness, for people and the earth.
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Toldot: Releasing Our Attachment To Dominance, By Akiko Yonekawa
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on November 3, 2021
V’Zot Habracha & Hakhel: How The Torah Ends The Shmita Year by Rabbi Yonah Berman
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on October 13, 2022.
Vayelech: Is This The End Of Shmita? by Rabbi Petakya Lichtenstein
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on September 29, 2022.
Nitzavim: Keep It Real – Don’t Overthink It! by Rabbi Benjamin Shalva
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on September 22, 2022.
Ki Tavo: Property, Shmita And Learning To Fly, by Aharon Ariel Lavi
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on September 16, 2022
Ki Tetze: Mitzvot To Combat Bad Habits And Destructive Behaviors, by Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on September 8, 2022
Re’eh, Rosh Hodesh Elul: The Expansiveness of Freedom by Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson
Originally published inthe Hazon Shmita Weekly on August 25, 2022.
Shoftim: On the Spiritual Tension of Shmita, By Dr. Tamar R. Marvin
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on September 2, 2022
Ekev: It Is A Land Which Hashem Your God Looks After, by Rabbanit Michal Kohane
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on August 19, 2022
Va-Etḥanan, Shabbat Naḥamu, and Tu Be-Av: With Heaven And Earth As Our Witness, By Rabbi Louis Polisson
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on August 12, 2022.
Devarim/Hazon, Erev Tisha B'Av: Rooting Ourselves In Space And Time by
Rabbi Jesse Paikin
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on August 4, 2022
Matot-Masei: What We Can Learn from Regret, by Rabba Dr. Carmella Abraham
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on June 29, 2022.
Pinchas: Loving the Land, by Talia Weisberg
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita weekly on July 21, 2022.
Balak: Getting The Best of Both Worlds, by Aharon Ariel Lavi
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on 7/14/22
Chukat: What Happens When You Keep Hitting The Rock by Gillian Steinberg
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on 7/8/22
Shlach: Honoring The Bounty
by Rachel Siegel
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on June 23, 2022
B’haalot’cha: Of Fertility And Infertility In Land And People by Anna Burke
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on June 17, 2022
Naso: Lift Up Their Heads – And Notice Them, by Rabbi Carol Glass
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on 6/9/2022
BaMidbar: Being Sustained, In Eden and the Wilderness, by Rabbi Eli Herb
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on June 3, 2022.
BeHukkotai: Why Land is Different, by Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson
Originally published in the Hazon Shmita Weekly on May 25, 2022