]> The Shalom Center - 33. BECHUKOTAY http://www.shalomctr.org/taxonomy/term/98/all en If We Do Allow the Earth to Rest -- http://www.shalomctr.org/node/764 <p>Rabbi Arthur Waskow, 1/2/2005</p> <p>The Torah says (Lev 26: 33-35 and 43-44) that if we do not follow the pattern of seventh-year rest that is commanded in Leviticus 25, the earth will rest anyway &#8212; thru famine, drought, exile. And Second Chronicles</p> Sun, 02 Jan 2005 01:00:00 -0500