https://beta.jewcology.com/2011/09/alienature-the-alienation-of-people-from-nature/ 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/2011/09/alienature-the-alienation-of-people-from-nature/comment-page-1/#comment-522 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:56:34 +0000 http://jewcology.org/2011/09/alienature-the-alienation-of-people-from-nature/#comment-522 So true: “Evening envelopes us slowly but wholly, and all we can do is pierce it faintly with our fisted candles and flashlights.” I too have had this experience when electricity is out. There’s an urgency and inevitability to it. Darkness is coming! I’ve heard from men who pray mincha at sunset that they also are conscious of the onset of darkness – it’s getting dark, I better pray! what a beautiful instinct, no?

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