The End of Shemittah: Community Conversation
Michael Fraade
Michael Fraade is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College, a pluralistic institution in Newton, MA. After earning a BA in history from Yale University, he spent five years in the South working as the Jewish Outdoor, Food, and Environmental Education Director at the Louisville, Kentucky JCC and on a number of small farms. Michael has learned Torah at Hadar, Drisha, Pardes, the Conservative Yeshiva, and Yashrut, and is also an alumnus of Hazon’s JOFEE Fellowship. He has previously worked for Drisha as the Assistant Program Director.
As we come to the end of the Shemittah year–but not the end of Shemittah–we would like our community to take time to contemplate what was learned, what was released, what will be left behind, and what we might carry forward into the next seven-year cycle. Join Mr. Michael Fraade for a discussion of what Shemittah might mean for us in the years we don’t observe it.