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Appreciating Nature’s Gifts by Rabbi Susan Elkodsi ~The tiny island country of Iceland sits atop two tectonic plates, the North...

Zazu Dreams – Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle –Cautionary. Fable for the Anthropocene Era by Cara Judea Alhadeff,...

Love is the Breath of the Soul by Rabbi Dr. Nachshon Siritsky Earth: Adamah In Hebrew, earth (adamah) is also...

Uncovering the Moon: The Compass of Compassion by Rabbi Margie Jacobs ~Growing up, I was taught that our prayers on...

Learn to Acknowledge Defeat by Rabbi Paul Plotkin ~I have been a vegetable and herb gardener for the last 30...

God’s eyes on the Land: Why our ancestors chose a land “of hills and valleys” by Rabbi David Seidenberg ~In...

Climate and the Sh’ma by Leah F. Cassorla Ph.D. ~One of my amazing 7th graders said to me that the...

I COME HOME by Lisa M. Miller ~walk my wild rocky woodland—indigo bunting familieskatydids, a woodpecker,the rushing creek timbre.God. In...

Earth Etude for Elul 8 by ©Rabbi Robin Damsky ~In his book, This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared,...

Love Psalm from Elohim by Judith Felsen, Ph.D. Dear Ones,This Elul we greet and meet in fields of anguish,barely chanting...

You likely support former President Donald Trump because he has done some positive things for Israel, including recognizing Jerusalem as...

Repentant and Grounded: AllyShip in Elul by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz ~One of the reasons that we are called “Earthlings,”1 b’nei...

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Earth Etude for Elul 5 by Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner ~The Chasidic Rabbi Nachman of Braslav (1772-1810) was a lifelong sufferer...

Earth Etude for Elul 4 by Rabbi Katy Z. Allen Arise / לָקוּם Enough!Too long have youstood still. Arise! Draw nearand...

Earth Etude for Elul 3 by Rabbi Janet Madden Midrash Tehilim 65:4: “Teshuvah is like the sea which is never...

Earth Etude for Elul 2 by Enid C. Lader ~I walked on the pier above the Saint Lawrence River It...