TROY–A local Shmita study group based at Congregation Berith Sholom, Troy, collected $3,164 in donations and recently invested them in the Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region. Spearheaded by Audrey Seidman as part of her work with the congregation’s Shmita Project, the investment grew out of the group’s understanding of the requirement to forgive loans as part of the Shmita year. Shmita is the ‘sabbatical year,’ the final year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah. During the Shmita year the land of Israel is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity ceases.. In some ways,...
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