My Sabbath Garden

Reader Contribution by Nan K. Chase
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Do you give yourself a break from the garden every week? Do you give the garden a break? Or has garden work taken over your life, as it used to do mine.

The way I see it, there’s a law against that kind of overzealous gardening: ancient Jewish law, as it turns out, which forbids any kind of garden or farm activity one day a week, every week. For me, for other Jewish gardeners, that day is Saturday, but any gardener, no matter where and no matter what persuasion (or none at all), might give this amazing and unexpectedly rich experience a try.

One day a week of no gardening, just being…being…in the garden, with the garden, and among the living creatures and the plants.

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