• The Potter and the clay

    The Potter and the clay

    Every day we get up and face life with all its challenges. Life can be difficult and often is. We all suffer in some way and some, like Job, suffer in many ways at the same time. It seems to me, from personal experience, but also from speaking to other people, that life’s challenges have…

  • The Sabbatical year, a “reset” every seven years

    The Sabbatical year, a “reset” every seven years

    The next Sabbatical year is in 2016, from the first day of Aviv. We plan to keep this commandment. This commandment, to keep the Sabbatical year, is seen by some as quite controversial and one of those commandments which is said not to pertain to us who don’t live in the land. As a result…

  • The Sabbatical year, why the land must lie fallow

    The Sabbatical year, why the land must lie fallow

    We have just published an article about preparing for the Sabbatical year. In this article, we stated, as it is written in Scripture, that the Sabbatical year is for the land. Have you ever wondered why that is? Why did YHVH give us an instruction to let the land rest?