Food-Hunger-Environment-Poverty
1. Who are the players in this text – seen and unseen?
2. What power dynamics are at play?
3. What responsibilities come with this level of power?
When was the last time you checked the water quality in your community?
1. Who are the players in this text – seen and unseen?
2. What power dynamics are at play?
3. Now that most of us do not live in agricultural settings, how can we apply these laws to our own gathering of resources?
1. According to these texts, who benefits from a person's working the land and giving the tithe?
2. What is the value of having the needy come to harvest their own portion?
3. We do not live in an agricultural society today. What would a modern day tithe look like? How could this piece of Torah inform how you relate to the dissenfrancised, the earth, and to eating?