Shmita Today with Deirde Gabbay

<p><a href="https://m.facebook.com/groups/shmitaprojectnorthwest/">Shmita Project Northwest</a></p><p>Shmita is deeply concerned about social justice. Shmita isn’t just about letting the land rest, it’s about the release of debt, and jubilee. Deidre from Shmita Project Northwest challenges us to think about, “what a Shmita year look like today?”</p><p><br></p><p>We need a Shmita year. Deirdre Gabbay, ___, ____, shares not only an explanation of what her group is doing, but her inspirations and the many relevant ways that a Shmita year is at least a good template for how we address today’s numerous social crises. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>400</p><p>All of these calamities show the potential for disconinute </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>445</p><p>On the positive side it really taught us the discontinuity </p><p><br></p><p>As scary as it was it was also encouraging. And now all of us, across the planet, have this muscle memory — that things can jump out of their ruts. <em>MORE HERE</em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>545</p><p>This Covid year gives us a hint of what a Shmita year could be. And the Torah teaches us that </p><p><br></p><p>700</p><p>What if we were to embrace this, what would a Shmita year look like? </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>One of the strengths of a Faith-based point of view is that there’s a vocabulary for a sense of commanded-ness. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>So how do we summon this sense of commanded-ness? </p><p><br></p><p>The maximalist vision that i have is that someday the whole world will recognize the need for the land to rest for a whole year and that they will rest alongside of it in some meaningful way. </p><p><br></p><p> It’s the earth, it’s the land that’s commanded to rest and to observe a Sabbath of complete rest for the Lord. It’s about a relationship that we’re not even really a part of. This is part of the way the world works. It’s part of an operating manual, between God and the land. </p><p><br></p><p>What if ordinarily people were to take a year off from