11 results for author: Ruth Feldman

learning from Torah- how Yosef stored the grain

Joseph is Alive: Israel Helps Africa Store Food 8573Share : A simple, inexpensive Israeli solution for storing staples is helping Africans, South Americans and Asians survive food shortages. When the Biblical Joseph predicted that Egypt would suffer a major famine thousands of years ago, he told the Pharaoh to store grain for seven years. His foresight kept the people in the region from starvation. Prof. Shlomo Navarro, an Israeli environmental food specialist, is taking the same approach today. Intuitively, Navarro suspects that the Biblical Joseph kept the grain underground, which today would be a costly and unwieldy solution. ...

PRAY, PLANT, GROW

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 PRAY, PLANT, GROW repeat! Many of us are familiar with the Pray, Eat, Pray, pattern of Jewish practice. Well, in this Harvest Season- which is also the spiritual season of birth and renewal- a New Year brings us many opportunities for reflection, renewal and redemption. Today is Hoshana Rabbah, bringing us to the end of Sukkos, and time to put away our Lulav and Estrog- Let's take action and put into practice our words to connect mind, body and spirit, to live in a way that our life is our thoughts, deeds and actions. We jsut read in Koheles, that there is a time to plant and a time to sow- well ...

Back from KAYAM

Back from The Farm Kayam Farm- the scene of "Planting Seeds: The First Jewish Early Childhood Conference." It was better than imagined. It was the participants willingness to "dig deeply" on all fronts that mattered. People came from as far as Seattle,North Carolina, Texas, Boston and Worcester, Florida and New York as well as from nearby Virgina, Pennsylvania,New Jersey and of course Baltimore. There were nature specialists, ece directors, teachers, a rabbi and a great mix of ages and persuasions. There were the gardeners and the wannabes and together we weeded, worked on the farm, engaged with the farm ...

Jewish Early Childhood Garden Conference- join us!

Planting Seeds: Jewish Early Childhood Garden Education Conference at Kayam Farm When: Sunday July 24, 2011 at 3:00pm -to- Tuesday July 26, 2011 at 3:00pm Add to my calendar Where: Kayam Farm at Pearlstone Retreat Center 5425 Mt. Gilead Rd Reisterstown, MD 21136 Driving Directions Cost: $300 per adult double occupancy $400 per adult single occupancy $50 per child 3-12 $18 per child under 3 You're invited to a wonderful event, and the first of its kind! A conference on Jewish Early Childhood Garden Education, hosted by Kayam Farm at Pearlstone, just outside of Baltimore, MD. Conference ...

PRAY – for our children to be branches on the tree of life- TORAH

While every day is a good day to prayer for our children and grandchildren. Tonight is special. it is customary that tonight, Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan, the month in which the Torah was given, we pray for our children to become "branches" of this 'tree of life' Scroll down for the English Tefilla of the Shelah Hakadosh This special prayer was composed by the Shelah Hakadosh to express the prayers of parents on behalf of their children. The Shelah said the optimal time for parents to recite this prayer is Erev Rosh ...

If a tree could grow in Brooklyn

Monday, May 9, 2011 If a tree can grow in Brooklyn If a tree could grow in Brooklyn, certainly a garden could grow in a New York school yard.Returning to the kindergarden, the Green Bubbie was thrilled to see the progress of the seeds she had planted with the children. They were eager and curious how a garden could grow in their playground. We built a "raised bed" a 3x3 foot wooden ' box' used lanscape fabric on the bottom and filled it with gardening soil. We planted the peas and zuchinni which we had grown from seeds and some additional lettuce and flower seedings. The children loved learning how ...

Green is still a color – 2

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 Green is still a color Today I received a letter in the mail addressed to "Green Bubbie(TM)" You know, even a great idea is only an idea. Even if you write about it, you need to see if it resonates with others outside of your own head. Do other people ever know what you are imagining? As a 'visionary' thinker, I can tell you that there is nothing more exciting then to see/know that your idea is understood by others, and used by them. So, imagine my delight when during my recent visit to my grand daughter's kindergarten, I was asked by the teacher what I would like the ...

Green is still a color

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 Green is still a color Today I received a letter in the mail addressed to "Green Bubbie(TM)" You know, even a great idea is only an idea. Even if you write about it, you need to see if it resonates with others outside of your own head. Do other people ever know what you are imagining? As a 'visionary' thinker, I can tell you that there is nothing more exciting then to see/know that your idea is understood by others, and used by them. So, imagine my delight when during my recent visit to my grand daughter's kindergarten, I was asked by the teacher what I would like the children to call me. Finally, my chance to try this 'green ...

Green is still a color

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life and death and gardening

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“An almond, the moon, and a cup cake tree”

The almond, the moon, and the cupcake tree. An almond, a moon, and a cupcake tree. Almonds, the moon, my cupcake tree, and yours. It was the afternoon of the evening of January 12th, 2011, also known as Erev Rosh Chodesh Shevat and I went to visit my grandchildren. I have always loved the holiday of Tu B'Shevat- simply named, the 15th of the (Hebrew) month of Shevat. When I was a child I loved the 'treats' we were given in Hebrew School- especially the bokser that I couldn't even bite. I did love trying to make music with it. I was very skeptical of a land called Israel which produced this inedible, strange 'bokser' ...