Monday, November 30, 2015

Living an Environmentally Conscious Jewish Life

By Rabbi Fred Dobb for MyJewishLearning.com    

The Jewish spiritual tradition offers ways to think and act in harmony with nature and for the benefit of the environment.

The created world is both bountiful and fragile. A Jewish environmental activist suggests that treating it with respect and care should be an integral part of our living out the Jewish concepts of Torah (instruction/learning), avodah (service/worship/work), and gemilut hasadim (acts of kindness).

“O child of Adam, when you return to Nature, on that day you shall open your eyes… You shall know that you have returned to yourself, for in hiding from Nature, you hid from yourself… And you will recognize on that day…you must renew everything: your food and your drink, your dress and your home, the character of your work and the way that you learn — everything.”

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