Part five of five text and discussion sheets included within the Jewish Guide to Fairtrade - which can be found in full here.
1. How should you support people in need?
2. Does it matter how you give?
3. What do these texts say about sustainability?
4. What might be some alternatives for Rabbi Huna that would still avoid the type of dependency he is genuinely trying to avoid?
What is being commanded by this text?
How does this marking out of time echo other traditional ways the bible marks out time?
What connections might there be between the weekly Sabbath, the Shmitta (Sabbatical) cycle every seven years and the Yovel (Jubilee) taking place after 49 years?
What did "proclaim release throughout the land" mean in biblical times?
How might we apply this concept today?
How does this idea challenge how we understand the passing of time compared with Wetsern notions of linear progress?
1. What are the areas of city life that R. Huna paid attention to?
2. What are some principles of action that we can learn from R. Huna?
3. What is the significance of Raba's comment at the end of this text?