SUKKOT AND SHMITA RESOURCES AND EVENTS for 2014-15
contributed by all the organizations and initiatives on “the Map” http://jewcology.org/map-of-initiatives/
Here’s a quick bit of Sukkot Torah to start us off: “The four species of the lulav represent the four types of ecosystems in the land of Israel: desert (date palm), hills (myrtle), river corridors (willow), and sh’feilah, the lowlands (etrog). Each species has to be fresh, with the very tips intact – they can’t be dried out, because they hold the water of last year’s rain. Together, they make a kind ...
by Rabbi Katy Z. Allen
Eternal God, You created earth and heavens with mercy, and blew the breath of life into animals and humans. We were created amidst a world of wholeness, a world called "very good," pure and beautiful, but now your many works are being erased by us from the book of life.
Not by our righteousness do we plead our prayers before You, Holy One of All, for we have sinned, we have despoiled, we have destroyed.
And so we confess together our collective sins, and ask for forgiveness:
For the sin which we have committed before You intentionally or ...
