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The Holiness You Eat

The land rests, so what do you eat? The food that grows untended in the seventh year is owned by no one and is holy - and the Torah asks only that you eat it well, share it, and never waste it.

Sabbatical Year and the Jubilee 3-5Friday, June 26, 2026

The Holiness You Eat

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The sanctity of the seventh-year produce: ownerless and shared, it is holy not by being set apart but by being eaten normally and never wasted or sold - holiness that lives in ordinary eating.