Recording: Shmita 5782: How the Upcoming “Year of Release” Can Heal Climate and Community

by admin02/01/202102/03/2021

Earth Ministry/WAIPL board member Deirdre Gabbay presents at the 2021 Big Bold Jewish Climate Festival on Shmita, the upcoming Jewish Sabbath year. Deirdre founded Ahavat v’Avodat HaAdamah, “Love and Service of the Earth,” in 2015 to establish an environmental presence for the Pacific Northwest rooted in Jewish text, tradition and practice, specifically to support a Jewish response to climate change.

Earth Ministry/WAIPL works within the unceded territories of Northwest Native nations. Our office is on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People past and present. Land acknowledgement is one way to resist erasure of Indigenous histories as well as to honor tribes and the land itself.