Core Teaching #15: Toward a Wiser Use of Energy
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Core Teaching #15: Toward a Wiser Use of Energy
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Core Teaching #15
Toward a Wiser Use of Energy
By Rabbi Yonatan Neril[1]
One of the most significant sustainability challenges of our time is how we produce, use, and relate to energy. Prior to the industrial revolution, the most important sources of energy for human uses were animals, people, wood, wind, and water. This changed with the invention of the steam turbine, internal combustion engine, and jet engine, and the use of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas and of nuclear power. While these technologies greatly increased material standards of ...
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Core Teaching #15
Toward a Wiser Use of Energy
By Rabbi Yonatan Neril[1]
One of the most significant sustainability challenges of our time is how we produce, use, and relate to energy. Today billions of people use fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas for energy. While use of these resources has greatly increased standards of living, it also has driven significant worldwide environmental impacts.
The Jewish tradition teaches us to use energy wisely. In some cases, wasting energy is a violation of Bal Tashchit, the prohibition not to waste excessiv...
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Core Teaching #14: Let the Land Rest: Lessons from Shemita, the Sabbatical Year
Shemita, the Sabbatical Year, comprises a number of the 613 commandments (mitzvot) of the Torah . With today’s environmental challenges, these mitzvot may be more relevant and needed today than at any time in Jewish and world history. We will explore each of these commandments in an attempt to understand their timeless wisdom and application for today’s world—a world which so desperately needs a shift in our collective consciousness.
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Core Teaching #14: Let the Land Rest: Lessons from Shemita, the Sabbatical Year
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Core Teaching #14: Let the Land Rest: Lessons from Shemita, the Sabbatical Year
Rabbi Yonatan Neril on Shemita, the Sabbatical Year!
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Core Teaching #14: Let the Land Rest: Lessons from Shemita, the Sabbatical Year
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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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Core Teaching #14
Let the Land Rest: Lessons from Shemita, the Sabbatical Year
By Rabbi Noam Yehuda Sendor
In the Garden of Eden, people lived in harmony with the Earth. This harmony was a natural expression of the people’s elevated consciousness. The Gaon of Vilna (1720-1797) wrote:
The light that was created on the first day was the light with which Adam saw from one end of the creation to the other. This original light is the light of consciousness (ohr ha’sekhel), the light which illumines the mind. It is through this that Adam ...
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Core Teaching #14
Let the Land Rest: Lessons from Shemita, the Sabbatical Year
By Rabbi Noam Yehuda Sendor
Shemita, the Sabbatical Year, comprises a number of the 613 commandments (mitzvot) of the Torah.[1] Like the commandment to rest every seven days on Shabbat, Shemita not only provides physical benefits but also enables humanity to develop spiritually and experience the unity of Creation. It also seems designed to shift how we relate the Earth.
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Core Teaching #13: We are How We Eat: A Jewish Approach to Food and Sustainability
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov identifies the desire for food and drink as the central desire of the human being, and the one from which other desires emanate. In Rabbi Tzadok Hacohen’s “A Treatise on Eating,” he cites the mystical book of theZohar, which calls the moment of eating “the time of combat.” This is because in eating a Jew must engage in the spiritual fight to ensure the act is a holy one.
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Core Teaching #13: We are How We Eat: A Jewish Approach to Food and Sustainability
Rabbi Yonatan Neril on We are How We Eat!
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Core Teaching #13: We are How We Eat: A Jewish Approach to Food and Sustainability
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Core Teaching #13: A Jewish Approach to Food and Sustainability
Enjoy this Hebrew/English source sheet and study guide on the topic of We are How We Eat: A Jewish Approach to Food and Sustainability. Discussion questions provided!
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Core Teaching #13
We are How We Eat: A Jewish Approach to
Food and Sustainability
By Rabbi Yonatan Neril
The beginning of the Torah makes clear the centrality of eating to human existence: “And the Lord God commanded man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat. But of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it, for on the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:16-17).
Adam and Eve transgressed this command with the first sin – eating from the Tree. Rabbi ...
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Core Teaching #13
We are How We Eat: A Jewish Approach to
Food and Sustainability
By Rabbi Yonatan Neril
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov identifies the desire for food and drink as the central desire of the human being, and the one from which other desires emanate.[1] Jewish teachings can help us appreciate the food we eat and eat it in a spirit of holiness. Doing so can also help the environment, as we will explore.
What does it mean to eat in a Jewish way? First of all, we should eat when we are hungry. Rabbi Shlomo Volbe teaches that a person ...
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For a discussion and midrash on the Flood and the Rainbow from my book Godwrestling -- Round 2 (Jewish Lights, 1996), please click to https://theshalomcenter.org/node/1842 . In it I report work The Shalom Center did in the early 1980s to persuade synagogues to set aside the 27th of Iyyar – in biblical tradition the day when the Rainbow came – as a day to address the danger of global disaster and the ways for us to deal with it.
For a video on how to draw on the wisdom of the Flood/ Rainbow story to address the climate crisis of today, please click to ...
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Core Teaching #12: Genesis and Human Stewardship of the Earth
In the first chapter of Genesis, twice in three verses, G-d speaks of humans ruling over other living beings. In the second instance, after creating Adam and Eve, G-d blesses them, saying "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." What does it mean for humans to subdue the earth and have dominion over other creatures?
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Core Teaching #12: Genesis and Human Stewardship of the Earth
We are proud to present Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, speaking on the topic of Genesis and Human Stewardship of the Earth!
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Core Teaching #12: Genesis and Human Stewardship of the Earth
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