Join us at Moshe Elul’s beautiful organic grape vineyards to learn what shemittah entails
Do you know what’s special about this year? Starting from Rosh Hashanah, all over Eretz Yisrael, the halachos of shemittah take effect.
Rabbi Efraim Lebovits of Keren Hashviis, an organization that helps farmers in Eretz Yirael keep shemittah, took us to Moshe Elul’s beautiful organic grape vineyards in Karmei Yosef to see for ourselves what shemittah entails.
Hashem gave us such a beautiful country! Before we even reach the farm, the views are breathtaking, with green and brown hills unrolling under a bright blue sky. Once we pull into Moshe Elul’s vineyard, Karmei Elul (that’s “Elul’s Vineyard” in Hebrew), we see row after row of grapevines as far as the eye can see.
At the entrance to the vineyard is a small orchard of olive trees that Moshe tells us was planted right before the last shemittah. It’s really pretty here. Moshe tells us that with people looking for outdoor venues due to Covid, many events took place here under these olive trees. The trees offer us a welcome escape from the sun, but we’re eager to see the vineyard that we came for.
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