https://beta.jewcology.com/2011/07/blessings-for-all/ Home of the Jewish Environmental Movement Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:55:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 https://beta.jewcology.com/2011/07/blessings-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-511 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:48:24 +0000 http://jewcology.org/2011/07/blessings-for-all/#comment-511 Great post Jesse! A thought inspired by your question, ‘Why no blessing for planting?’: The root of the Hebrew word for blessing (bracha) is Beit-Reish-Kaf, meaning “knee,” which referes to the practice of bowing (bending your knees). When we bless something we are symbollically ‘bowing’ to its source (G!D), showing reverance, appreciation and awe. When we plant something we also bend our knees and if paying attention, appreciate the awesome reality that all food begins life as a tiny seed, hungry for sun and water. It hit me reading your words that gardening, planting, and farming are bowing practices, types of blelssings in motion. The Hebrew, bracha, teaches that dual meaning of a blessing – part speech and part action. So perhaps your conscious planting is a blessing in need of no words. Just a thought…

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