Core Teaching #6: Countering Destruction: Lessons from Noah
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Core Teaching #6: Countering Destruction - Lessons from Noah
Countering Destruction: Lessons from Noah
By Rabbi Yonatan Neril [1]
Although the flood and the life of Noah occurred thousands of years ago, the story of Noah offers important lessons about how our actions affect the world. The Torah teaches that ten generations after Creation, all life on the planet had “corrupted its way on the earth”(Genesis 6:12). G-d gave humans 120 years to improve their ways, using Noah and his ark as messengers. Yet the people ignored the message ...
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Core Teaching #6: Countering Destruction - Lessons from Noah
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Core Teaching #6: Countering Destruction - Lessons from Noah
In this video, Rabbi Yonatan Neril speaks about the lessons we can learn from Noah and the flood.
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Core Teaching #6: Countering Destruction - Lessons from Noah
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Based on the San Francisco exhibition, Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought, this educator's resource guide provides information and ideas for exploring themes of environmentalism, trees in Jewish tradition, and the tree as a universal symbol. This guide shares works of artists who were asked to reflect on trees, Tu B'shevat, and the concepts of "do not destroy" (ba'al tashchit), and "repairing the world" (tikkun olam.)
This resource is designed to enhance your learning by providing:
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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.
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Core Teaching #5: Shabbat and Environmental Awareness
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Core Teaching #5: Shabbat and Environmental Awareness
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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
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Core Teaching #4: Sustainability in the Land of Israel
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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...
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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).
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