Teaching #9: Passing the Test of Wealth: A Challenge for Our Time

Core Teaching #9: Passing the Test of Wealth

The challenge that wealth-driven over-consumption poses is of both a spiritual and physical nature. The spiritual challenge is to overcome wealth's pull towards self-gratification and a sense of entitlement,or be overcome by it. The physical challenge manifests in environmental problems like species loss and pollution.

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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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