{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "passover-shmita-year", "title": "Passover in a Shmita Year", "author": "jenny isaacs", "author_handle": "jennyaisaacs79613", "author_initials": "JI", "covertext": "Our sages took some pains to ensure a Jewish calendar in which Pesach would always fall in the spring. (They were operat...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Our sages took some pains to ensure a Jewish calendar in which Pesach would always fall in the spring. (They were operating in a northern hemisphere context; I don’t think the challenges of antipodean Judaism ever occurred to them.) In the northern hemisphere, Pesach is inextricably connected with spring.</p>\n\n<p>As the earth shakes off the constrictions of winter, her frozen places thawing, so we remember our shaking-off the yoke of slavery to Pharaoh. As plant life and trees are “reborn” into the warming air, we tell the story of our renewal and rebirth out of the constriction of slavery and into freedom.</p>\n\n<p>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?</p>\n\n<p>Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l taught that once humanity became able to see the earth from space, we ushered in an era when we could be newly-aware of our interconnections. Regardless of nationality or creed, we’re all on the same planet. Ultimately the divisions between “us” and “them” are illusory. And that’s true not only spiritually, but practically. If we pollute a river “there,” its impact will eventually be felt “here.”</p>\n\n<p>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.</p>\n\n<p>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. 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