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On Thursday the boys in grades 4-7 at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, were privileged to hear a firsthand account from one of the nearly 3,000 Shmittah-observant farmers in Eretz Yisrael, Baruch Adiri. Baruch recounted, in English, how he will be observing Shmittah for the fifth time this coming year, willingly abandoning a great percentage of his livelihood for the sake of keeping the mitzvah. Baruch cultivates olive groves, wheat and barley, and raises goat and sheep.
He also described the many miracles he has personally experienced in a variety of settings – in witnessing the abundance promised by the Torah in advance of Shviis materialize, in the recent rain of rockets from Gaza, and in his own battles on the front lines of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Shmittah Farmer from Yeshiva Darchei Torah on Vimeo.
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Fantastic video! The farmer has such bitachon, and is so warm and intelligent. Hopefully the rebbes absorbed his spiritual energy and can impart it to their talmidim.