Rabbi Emily Langowtiz has a wonderful reflection on Leviticus 25:1-26:2 posted on the ReformJudaism.org website. Her work is based on and inspired by the following verse:
Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of the Eternal. Six years you may sow your field and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather in the yield. But in the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath of complete rest (Shabbat Shabbaton), a sabbath of the Eternal; you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard…it shall be a year of complete rest for the land. (Lev. 25:2-5)
This is one of the great social justice and earth justice readings, but we seldom think about how to live it and apply it.
Intended or not, there is also a post by Rabbi Ben Spratt on "Joining God as Resident Strangers in the World" that I think should be read with Rabbi Langwitz's post in order to get context and a broader view of what land means, or can mean.
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