Ecology & the Jewish Spirit

Uncovers Judaism's ecological message and brings to light the long-neglected environmental themes that are native to Jewish tradition.

Acknowledgments

9

(2)

Introduction

11

(4)

Sacred Place

15

(80)

Adam, Adamah, and Adonai: The Relationship between Humans, Nature, and God in the Bible

19

(8)

Jeff Sultar

Befriending the Desert Owl

27

(5)

Shamu Fenyvesi

(Mis)reading Genesis: A Response to Environmentalist Critiques of Judaism

32

(9)

Neal Joseph Loevinger

Is There Only One Holy Land?

41

(9)

Bradley Shavit Artson

How Wilderness Forms a Jew

50

(7)

Ellen Bernstein

A Sentient Universe

57

(12)

Everett Gendler

Practical Kabbalah: A Family History

69

(11)

Charles Fenyvesi

Jewish Perspectives on Limiting Consumption

80

(8)

Eliezer Diamond

New York Is a Girl

88

(7)

Robert Sand

Sacred Time

95

(74)

Cycles of the Jewish Year

The Sun, the Moon, and the Seasons: Ecological Implications of the Hebrew Calendar

98

(9)

Debra J. Robbins

``In Your Goodness, You Renew Creation'': The Creation Cycles of the Jewish Liturgy

107

(5)

Lawrence Troster

Shabbat and the Sabbatical Year

112

(9)

Dan Fink

The Land of Your Soul

121

(6)

Marc Sirinsky

The Holidays

Rain and the Calendar

127

(6)

Ellen Cohn

Sukkot: Holiday of Joy

133

(4)

Ellen Bernstein

Sukkot: Gathering the Boughs

137

(2)

Dan Fink

A History of Tu B'Sh'vat

139

(3)

Ellen Bernstein

The Tu B'Sh'vat Seder

142

(9)

Ellen Bernstein

Purim Rivers and Revels

151

(2)

Dan Fink

The Parsley versus the Potato: A Passover Reminiscence

153

(2)

Everett Gendler

Leaving Egypt

155

(2)

Dan Fink

Grow Your Own---Barley, That Is!

157

(3)

Eileen Abrams

Mountain Paths

160

(2)

Dan Fink

In Search of the Omer

162

(5)

Ellen Cohn

Of Dust, Ashes, Comets, and a Three-Year-Old

167

(2)

Dan Fink

Sacred Community

169

(88)

Cosmos and Chaos: Biblical Views of Creation

172

(8)

Neil Gillman

Restoring a Blessing

180

(5)

Shamu Fenyvesi

What Is the Common Wealth?

185

(5)

David Ehrenfeld

Jewish Agricultural Law: Ethical First Principles and Environmental Justice

190

(10)

Victor Raboy

The Blessings of Holiness

200

(7)

Lawrence Troster

Nature, Spirit, Body

207

(7)

Shira Dicker

Judaism's Environmental Laws

214

(11)

Barry Freundel

Business and Environment: A Case Study

225

(5)

Philip J. Bentley

Between Dust and Divinity: Maimonides and Jewish Environmental Ethics

230

(10)

Dan Fink

What Does the Hour Demand? Environmentalism As Self-Realization

240

(4)

David Gedzelman

Living As If God Mattered: Heschel's View of Nature and Humanity

244

(6)

Marc Swetlitz

How Community Forms a Jew

250

(7)

Ellen Bernstein

Notes

257

(12)

About the Contributors

269

(4)

Index

273

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