Did you know that GrowTorah is in the midwest? Led by Head Farmer, Rabbi Michael Friedman, Hillel Torah has installed the dazzling, new Joseph Kirschner GrowTorah Educational Garden

This year, however, the High Holidays (which for most conventional Jews is the “busy season”), feel particularly resonant, especially for us, because 5782 marks a Shmita year. That, coupled with the recent publication of the sixth assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), makes our relationship to G-d and the land feel ever more precarious, challenged, and in need of a thorough reset, release, and returning - a so-called “Shmita Tshuva”.