About this episode

Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe discusses the historical context of farming and the spiritual implications of agricultural practices in Judaism.

I don’t know many farmers. This country used to be an agrarian society, but today fewer than 2% of Americans are farmers. This was not the case in antiquity. In antiquity, making a living effectively meant growing crops. The Almighty makes seemingly unreasonable demands of us when it asks us to cease working the field […]

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