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NEWS
HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Urges Support of Shmittah Observant
Farmers
by A. Cohen
In a letter to a rabbinical contingent from the Nationwide
Center for Shmittah Observant Farmers, HaRav Chaim Kanievsky
wrote: "Assistance to the shmittah observant farmers
to the best of one's abilities is a great obligation. Those
who lend them a hand are actually participating in the
mitzvah of letting the land lie fallow. Those assisting them
will be blessed with the Torah blessing of, `Vetzivisi es
birchosi,' which includes everything."
Last week, a contingent of rabbonim and askonim of
the Nationwide Center visited HaRav Kanievsky in his home.
They reported on the Center's activities in support of
thousands of shmittah observant farmers in Eretz
Yisroel who have let their fields lie fallow: doing so with
courage, fortitude, and joy and dedication as commanded by
the Torah.
Center activists reported on the tremendous increase in the
number of shmittah observers in Eretz Yisroel in this
shmittah year.
HaRav Kanievsky welcomed the contingent warmly and issued a
fervent call to everyone to rally to the aid of
shmittah observant farmers in Eretz Yisroel. He
closed the abovementioned letter with, "On the merit of
shevi'is, we are redeemed and are not exiled from our
land, as Chazal have said (Tanchuma parshas Behar).
We are, therefore, obligated to help the shmittah
observant farmers, giborei hakoach osei devoro and to
strengthen and encourage them."
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