Torah of the Earth

An invaluable key to understanding the intersection of ecology and Judaism.

Volume 2:
-- Zionism: One Land, Two Peoples
-- Eco-Judaism: One Earth, Many Peoples

Introduction Earth and Earthing, Adam and Adamah

ix

PART 1: Zionism: One Land, Two Peoples

1

(112)

Zionist Texts

Aggadah: ``Variations on the Theme of the Future''

9

(6)

A.D. Gordon

Halakhah: ``Pollution and Peace: An Interview with Yossi Sarid''

15

(6)

``Four Modern Teachers: Hirsch, Kook, Gordon, and Buber''

21

(21)

Fred Dobb

``An Imperiled Promised Land''

42

(30)

Alon Tal

``The Struggle for Israel's Environment: Tougher Than Ever''

72

(27)

David B. Brooks

``The Environment: A Shared Interest for Palestinians and Israelis''

99

(7)

Paul Pesach Smith

Thaer Abu Diab

``Our Shared Environment''

106

(7)

Robin Twite

PART 2: Eco-Judaism: One Earth, Many Peoples

113

(174)

Eco-Jewish Texts

``Technical Civilization and Shabbat''

119

(4)

Abraham Joshua Heschel

``The Way of the Sabbath''

123

(6)

Erich Fromm

``Metaphors of God''

129

(1)

Judith Plaskow

``Guarding the Garden: A New Musical Midrash''

130

(9)

David Schechter

Margot L. Stein

Evi Seidman

``The Book of Miriam''

139

(10)

Leonard Yehudah Angel

``The Unmaking of the World''

149

(4)

Naomi Mara Hyman

``Haftarah for the Rainbow Covenant''

153

(6)

Arthur Waskow

``Judaism and Nature: Theological and Moral Issues''

159

(15)

Eilon Schwartz

``On the Judaism of Nature''

174

(11)

Everett Gendler

``Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism''

185

(16)

Aurora Levins Morales

``To Work It and Guard It: Preserving God's World''

201

(6)

Arthur Green

``Wilderness in Time, Sabbath in Space''

207

(15)

Evan Eisenberg

``Land, Community, and Sprawl''

222

(10)

Ellen Bernstein

``Transforming Shabbat, the Earth, and the Jewish People''

232

(13)

Michael Lerner

``Recovering the Sensuous through Jewish Ecofeminist Practice''

245

(16)

Irene Diamond

David Seidenberg

``And the Earth Is Filled with the Breath of Life''

261

(26)

Arthur Waskow

Spiraling into the Future: Sources for Learning and Doing

287

(3)

Eco-Jewish Organizations

290

(3)

Suggestions for Further Reading

293

(3)

Notes

296

(12)

About the Contributors

308

(4)

About Jewish Lights

312

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