Core Teaching #5: Shabbat and Environmental Awareness
In this video, Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, speaks about the connection between Shabbat and our responsibility to protect the environment.
These materials are posted as part of Jewcology’s Year of Jewish Learning on the Environment, in partnership with Canfei Nesharim. Jewcology thanks the Shedlin Outreach Foundation and the ROI community for their generous support, which made the Jewcology project possible.
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Core Teaching #5: Shabbat and Environmental Awareness
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Core Teaching #5: Shabbat and Environmental Awareness
Enjoy this Hebrew/English source sheet and study guide on the topic of Shabbat and Environmental Awareness. Discussion questions provided!
These materials are posted as part of Jewcology’s Year of Jewish Learning on the Environment, in partnership with Canfei Nesharim. Jewcology thanks the Shedlin Outreach Foundation and the ROI community for their generous support, which made the Jewcology project possible.
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Core Teaching #5: Shabbat and Environmental Awareness
Shabbat and Environmental Awareness
By Rabbi Yonatan Neril
What is the connection between the Jewish Sabbath and the environment? In modern society, we are running, speaking, and thinking at an exceptional rate, and oftentimes we continue all week long without slowing down. Constantly doing, always mobile accessible, habitually multi-tasking. We can get so caught up in the doing that we could spend our whole lives on the go. If being too busy is a malady of modern man, slowing down on ...
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Core Teaching #5: Shabbat and Environmental Awareness
Rejuvenating Ourselves and Our Planet
By Rabbi Yonatan Neril [1]
In modern society, we are running, speaking, and thinking at an exceptional rate, and oftentimes we continue all week long without slowing down. Constantly doing, always mobile accessible, habitually multi-tasking.
If being too busy is a malady of modern man, slowing down on Shabbat may be a key remedy. The Torah teaches, "These are the things that the Divine commanded to make. Six days work may be done, but on ...
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Core Teaching #5: Shabbat and Environmental Awareness
Today we live in a society which is constantly doing without sufficient regard to being, and at the same time, transforming the natural world without taking time to reflect on the long-term consequences. Shabbat as a spiritual practice offers great potential to reduce consumption and thereby benefit the natural world.
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Core Teaching #4: Sustainability in the Land of Israel
Click here to hear Jewcology's podcast on Sustainability in the Land of Israel.
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Core Teaching #4: Sustainability in the Land of Israel
Enjoy this Hebrew/English source sheet and study guide on the topic of Sustainability in the Land of Israel. Discussion questions provided!
These materials are posted as part of Jewcology’s Year of Jewish Learning on the Environment, in partnership with Canfei Nesharim. Jewcology thanks the Shedlin Outreach Foundation and the ROI community for their generous support, which made the Jewcology project possible.
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Core Teaching #4: Sustainability in the Land of Israel
Grapes, Goats, and Open Spaces: Sustainability in Settling the Land of Israel
By Rabbi Yonatan Neril [1]
At different times in history, Jews have engaged in growing crops, tending fruit trees, and shepherding animals in the Land of Israel. These activities were critical to provide food to sustain Jews living in the Land. Yet they also may have presented challenges to environmental sustainability in the Land of Israel. Jewish tradition can teach us about sustaining the Land over time, both in ...
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Core Teaching #4: Sustainability in the Land of Israel
Sustainability in the Land of Israel
By Rabbi Yonatan Neril [1]
Abraham and Sarah came to Israel over 3700 years ago.[2] Since then, significant populations of Jews have spent over 1600 years living in the Land of Israel.[3] For much of this time, Jews have been involved in growing crops, tending fruit trees, and shepherding animals, activities critical to providing food to sustain those living in Israel. Yet they also presented challenges to environmental sustainability in the Land.
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Core Teaching #4: Sustainability in the Land of Israel
Rabbinic teachings on Yishuv Eretz Yisrael (settling the land of Israel) highlight the common Jewish duty to live sustainably. Our Sages made short-term sacrifices in order to preserve their resources, actions we should emulate to help us find ways for today’s reality on the Land.
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The Institute for Jewish Spirituality and Inside Passages are co-leading an incredible retreat for Jewish Environmental leaders this June in Alaska. Full details and registration are available at http://www.regonline.com/alaska2012
For the past ten summers, IJS has taken groups of Jewish leaders to Alaska for a week of wilderness kayaking and contemplative silence, exploring the crucial link between Jewish life, spiritual practice and environmental stewardship. This experience is for you whether you work for a Jewish organization or not, whether you are a profes...
Core Teaching #3: Animal Welfare
Download this audio podcast to learn more about the Jewish requirement to show compassion towards animals and the prohibition of Tza'ar Ba'alei Chaim (causing harm to animals).
These materials are posted as part of Jewcology’s Year of Jewish Learning on the Environment, in partnership with Canfei Nesharim. Jewcology thanks the Shedlin Outreach Foundation and the ROI community for their generous support, which made the Jewcology project possible.
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Core Teaching #3: Animal Welfare
Enjoy this Hebrew/English source sheet and study guide on the topic of Animal Welfare. Discussion questions provided!
These materials are posted as part of Jewcology’s Year of Jewish Learning on the Environment, in partnership with Canfei Nesharim. Jewcology thanks the Shedlin Outreach Foundation and the ROI community for their generous support, which made the Jewcology project possible.
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Core Teaching #3: Animal Welfare
Compassion for all Creatures
By Rabbi Dovid Sears
"God is good to all, and His mercy is upon all His works" (Psalms 145:9). This verse is the touchstone of the rabbinic attitude toward animal welfare, appearing in a number of contexts in Torah literature. The Torah espouses an ethic of compassion for all creatures, and affirms the sacredness of life. These values are reflected by the laws prohibiting tza’ar baalei chaim (cruelty to animals) and obligations for humans to treat animals with care.
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Core Teaching #3: Animal Welfare
The Torah espouses an ethic of compassion for all creatures, and affirms the sacredness of life. These values are reflected by the laws prohibiting tza’ar baalei chaim (cruelty to animals) and obligations for humans to treat animals with care.
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These materials are posted as part of Jewcology’s ...
Core Teaching #3: Animal Welfare
Compassion for all Creatures
By Rabbi Dovid Sears
"God is good to all, and His mercy is upon all His works" (Psalms 145:9). This verse is the touchstone of the rabbinic attitude toward animal welfare. The Torah espouses compassion for all creatures and affirms the sacredness of life. These values are reflected by the laws prohibiting cruelty to animals and obligations for humans to treat animals with care.
A basic rule of Jewish ethics is the emulation of God's ways. In the words of the Talmud, ...
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Printable PDF New Freedom Seder for the Earth, with full-color graphic cover!
The Shalom Center has created a 40th Anniversary New Interfaith Freedom Seder for the Earth to help us free ourselves from the greatest dangers of our time: What are the Ten Plagues endangering the earth and human life today, and what are the Ten Blessings we ourselves can bring to heal the earth and our own societies?
If you want to use this text, or part of it, for an Earth Seder in your own community -- perhaps a week before Pesach or for Earth Day on April 22, or the weekend before ...
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Core Teaching #2: Bal Tashchit - Summoning the Will Not to Waste
The commandment of Bal Tashchit-- do not destroy or waste-- has long been considered central to a Jewish environmental ethic. Indeed, Rabbi Norman Lamm understands it to be “the biblical norm which most directly addresses itself to the ecological situation.”[1] What is the basis for the commandment not to waste? We will explore what Bal Tashchit is, how it applies to food, and how it relates to our lives.
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Core Teaching #2: Bal Tashchit
Download this audio podcast to learn more about Bal Tashchit, the prohibition of wasting and destroying.
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