conference@jewishfarmernetwork.org <— if you have any conference related questions! 🙂

Here’s the source sheet, folks! https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/377783?lang=bi

noah

another difference between Egypt and israel: the Nile could be controlled to irrigate fields! in Israel they had to rely on rain to water their crops, and you can’t control rain

Got to pray for rain

reliance on right relationship with the Divine

moral ecology

We start asking for rain in Amidah right after Sukkot

A 25 hour glimpse and immersion in Olam Ha-ba! (The world to come!)

reflection

releasing anger & sadness for the day

taking time to fill me cup

rest & connection

a break from the rest of the world

rest, reset, taking account of the week

patience and surrender

anti-capitalism

Doing my best to be present, different every week

a time to rest and do something that will bring me joy

resisting the pressures of capitalism

I would love for Shabbat to mean a turn inward, turn to my relationships, and settle

connection and time with my family

centering pleasure

Rest, naps, day apart from work, connection to myself and others. I like that…anti-capatalism.

A day to rest and not try to achieve much, except maybe mow the lawn late in the summer day

surrendering from so much DOING

which texts are we starting with?

Here’s the source sheet, folks! https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/377783?lang=bi

We were thinking about during shmitah we can appreciate how the land just provides, without our additional input work to produce food

I’m also thinking about how this cyclical renewal to abstaining from production farming is a forced-rememberance of foraging knowledge and skills

cyclical return*

That also makes me think about how agriculture creates the opportunity to create surplus, and surplus often leads to disparities in wealth distribution

We talked about this idea of remission or re-mission a return to your mission - did you get off track is small and big ways?

Aaaannddd shmita/yovel tears down those hierarchies

^^ yes yes yes

hierarchies that rely on intergenerational wealth build up! ^

I’m thinking of ways to using the next shmita year as year-long work sabbatical

getting more intentional about the ways I participate in the economic system although I cannot change it myself: choosing to shop at the co-op, doing a little more giving where I’m able, etc

also curious about how climate in eretz Israel is a factor in creating Shmita; how I might map that onto living in a northern climate where we get a deep restful winter every year.

participating in medical debt relief

Regarding medical debt relief https://www.jewishfarmernetwork.org/2022liveschedule

Ox threshing image in the link above ^^^

I don't see a link Sharad!

Oh had posted in the small group I guess

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeingwoven.org%2Ftag%2Fthreshing-floor%2F&psig=AOvVaw2gyNyo3QHu3xM1ZniACkxT&ust=1644256111495000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCNjj1MHR6_UCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ

oh wow! thank you.

Real link to Judaism Unbound episode on debt relief https://www.judaismunbound.com/

eat the eggs, mom will lay more!

kill the mom, no more eggs

The flip-side of “teach a person to fish…”

Milk goy?

Thank you so much, Shamu!

I learned so much and have so many more things to study now. Thank you!!

Thank you so much!

Thank you shamu!

Thank you, Shamu! This was beautiful.

https://www.jewishfarmernetwork.org/2022liveschedule

^^conference schedule!