This year the lens of our Second Night Seder will be Shmita; and our responsibility to and engagement with the earth.
On the Jewish calendar this is a shmita year, a year of Shabbat for the earth. Just as we were freed from slavery and can now embrace holy time every seventh day, so we are called to free the earth from her labors every seventh year. But most of us don’t farm. How might we reinterpret this call?
Maybe this Shmita year’s Pesach is an opportunity to rethink how we treat the earth we share. A time to redouble our efforts to clean the air and to avoid sullying the seas.
In the Pesach story, we leave the Narrow Place of slavery — emerge through the waters of the Sea of Reeds — and are born into a new paradigm of relationship with our Source. Can we take Pesach as our inspiration to forge a new paradigm of relationship with our planet, so that the earth too can experience rest and rebirth?
Join Temple Beth Tikvah in partnership with GIPL for a plant-based, earth-focused Seder experience. All are welcome!
Registration required
9955 Coleman Road
Roswell, GA 30075
$ per child under 5
