...MICHAEL LERNER Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 Sharon Gilbertson ( artwithvision.com ) Heeding the Torah’s call for a Sabbatical Year would bring us one step closer to truly caring for the earth. Painting by Sharon Gilbertson. Sharon Gilbertson (artwithvision.com). / Heeding the...

... explore what it would mean to take seriously the Torah’s call for the cancellation of all debts and a yearlong halt to economic production every seven years (through the observance of a Sabbatical Year) and the equal redistribution of property every fifty years (through the observance of a Jubilee Year...

... environmental districts coordinated to best protect the planet while sustaining life. The creation of a Sabbatical Year. If we adopted the practice of the Sabbatical Year globally, then every seven years, a seventh of the countries of the world would halt all forms of production and work, and the other...

... Sabbatical year in which all work on the land is prohibited — no planting or harvesting. Anything that grows on that land is considered ownerless and hence available for the poor and the homeless to take. Those who have inherited land are expected during the Sabbatical year to live off of food that has been...

... on 116th Street in Harlem. My family and I joined Canaan the year I was on sabbatical leave at Union Theological Seminary...

... I am very pleased to see that through the online addendums to the Winter 2015 issue (published at tikkun.org/jubilee ) the Jubilee and debt sabbatical themes are still very much alive in Tikkun magazine. I’d like to share a response to Norman Solomon’s online contribution, “The Jubilee and the...

... world whose lives have been affected by the operations of corporations seeking renewals of their charters. Adopt the biblical jubilee so that every fifty years all wealth is returned to a roughly equal distribution for everyone on the planet. Adopt the biblical sabbatical year so that the vast...

..., music, reading, play, humor, etc.). This practice can strengthen a campaign for a Sabbatical Year, in which almost all work stops once every seven years (more about this biblical idea in a future issue of Tikkun ). This will help people let go of the mania of consumption and the false idea that...

... movies I am glad that some are practicing the Shmittah, a sabbatical of kibbutzim, danced the Hora, and began to pronounce Hebrew year in Israel, and giving Terumrrmh andM a’asser of our produce. with a lot of ahh sounds. (But is this not to teach the...

... YEARS LATER the seven times seven sabbatical years of the forty-nine years of the sabbatical cycle. The Biblical life-rhythm emphasis on periodic withdrawal for the purpose of self-awareness is institutionalized . f t...

... credits that could be used over the course of a lifetime for skills training or a sabbatical, should an employee become disabled. Disability supports, such as assistive devices that enable a disabled worker to do specific tasks, would no longer be linked to a particular job. Rather, disability supports...

... briefly step back from the world, let go of control, and experience a taste of peace. It’s a weekly spiritual retreat. The next stage of the system is the Sabbatical Year, during which the outward (and correspondingly inward...

... spiritual teacher and adviser. In no time at all, Sister Mary Pius found herself assigned to the Sisters of Loretto, a convent for the care of aging and infirm retired nuns. She was also granted dispensation from the convent back in Brooklyn, a formal sabbatical, of sorts. She was further instructed...

... land. The Jubilee year itself, along with the six Sabbatical or Shmitta years that preceded it (one every seventh year), was a time when no one was allowed to farm the land, because the land “desired” her rest, her Shabbat. It is the land that has the right to rest, the right not to be bought...

... willit us if of warns that follow disaster self-restraint; we the sabbatical act this if with we let of Abraham, of oil. gallon last every recover to floor ocean mile-deep the...