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		<description><![CDATA[A Pair of Modern Meshalim on Environmental Degradation by Jeffrey Spitzer וַתִּשָּׁחֵת הָאָרֶץ ר&#39; אהרן ור&#39; ג&#39;פרי אמר ר&#39; אהרן משל לשר הפנים שביטל את חוקי שמירת הטבע. לאחר זמן אמר &#34;הארץ מקולקלת&#34; ואחר כך אמר &#34;קלקלתם את הארץ.&#34; כך אמר הקב&#34;ה &#34;וַתִּשָּׁחֵת הָאָרֶץ&#34; ואחר כך אמר &#34;כִּי הִשְׁחִית כָּל בָּשָׂר אֶת דַּרְכּוֹ עַל הָאָרֶץ.&#34; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	A Pair of Modern Meshalim on Environmental Degradation by Jeffrey Spitzer</p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">וַתִּשָּׁחֵת הָאָרֶץ </span><span dir="LTR" style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">ר&#39; אהרן ור&#39; ג&#39;פרי</span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">אמר ר&#39; אהרן משל לשר הפנים שביטל את חוקי שמירת הטבע. </span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">לאחר זמן אמר &quot;הארץ מקולקלת&quot; </span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">ואחר כך אמר &quot;קלקלתם את הארץ.&quot; </span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">כך אמר הקב&quot;ה &quot;וַתִּשָּׁחֵת הָאָרֶץ&quot; </span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">ואחר כך אמר &quot;כִּי הִשְׁחִית כָּל בָּשָׂר אֶת דַּרְכּוֹ עַל הָאָרֶץ.&quot;</span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">ר&#39; ג&#39;פרי אמר משל לרב שאמר לתלמידיו</span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">תנו כבוד לי ולביתי</span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">ואמר ביתי ביתך</span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">לבסוף הבית נהרס</span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">כך אמר הקב&quot;ה &quot;וּמִלְאוּ אֶת הָאָרֶץ וְכִבְשֻׁהָ וּרְדוּ&#8230;&quot; </span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">וכתיב &quot;וַיַּנִּחֵהוּ בְגַן עֵדֶן לְעָבְדָהּ וּלְשָׁמְרָהּ&quot;</span></p>
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	<span lang="HE" style="font-size: 16pt;">ולבסוף &quot;וַתִּשָּׁחֵת הָאָרֶץ&quot; </span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">&ldquo;<b>The earth had gone to ruin</b>.&rdquo; (Gen 6:11)</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">R. Aharon and R. Jeffrey</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">Said R. Aharon: A parable to the secretary of the interior who annulled environmental regulations.</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">After a while, he said &ldquo;The land is despoiled&rdquo;</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">and after that, he said, &ldquo;You have despoiled the land.&rdquo;</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">Similarly, &ldquo;<b>Now the earth had gone to ruin</b>&rdquo; (Gen 6:11),</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">and after that, &ldquo;<b>for all flesh had ruined its way upon the earth</b>&rdquo; (Gen 6:12)</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">R. Jeffrey said: A parable to a rabbi who said to his students,</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">&ldquo;Show respect to me and to my house&rdquo;</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">and he said &ldquo;Mi casa es su casa&rdquo;</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the end, the house was destroyed.</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">Similarly, God said, &ldquo;<b>be many and fill the earth and subdue it! Have dominion</b>&rdquo; (Gen 1:28),</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">and it is written, &ldquo;<b>God, took the human and set him in the garden of Eden, to work it and to watch it</b>&rdquo; (2:15).</span></p>
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	<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the end, &ldquo;<b>The earth had gone to ruin</b>.&rdquo;</span></p>
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