Carly Sugar looks to the ancient, radical cycle of rest for the land in Jewish tradition. Carly is based in Detroit, Michigan on Anishinaabe land and directs the Adamah Farming Fellowship in Falls Village, Connecticut on Mochican land. Her work explores the intersection of food skills, Jewish ritual, social change, and community building.

This piece appears in Geez 63: Sound the Trumpet. In this moment of massive debt overload, mass incarceration, and rampant land destruction, this issue asks: What would the practice of Jubilee look like today? We dream together of reparations, debt forgiveness, prison abolition, land restoration, and a whole lot

of radical rest.