Created by Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, to be shared, celebrated, and enjoyed
Click here for a downloadable version to print out and use at your Rosh HaShanah dinner.
Ever since the first breath of creation, time has unfolded in cycles of seven. Six days reach their crescendo in the seventh day, Shabbat - the Sabbath, the day of rest. Six years reach their crescendo in the seventh year, Shemittah - the sabbatical, the year of renewal. Seven cycles of seven years reach their crescendo in the Jubilee year, the ultimate enactment of re-creation.
All ...
Earth Etude for Elul 6
by Rabbi Howard Cohen
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the approach of the season of Teshuvah it is once again time to reflect on our relationship with the earth. In the past I would have asked myself questions such as ‘did I waste natural resources’; or ‘did I pour unreasonable amounts of carbon into the atmospher’; or ‘did I speak out against corporate environmental abuse’. These questions are important but I believe that there is ...
