Posts About environment
The Sun Also Rises and Blesses: April 8, 2009
Early in the morning of April 8, 2009, Jewish communities will have a teaching opportunity that comes only once every 28 years: the festival of Birchat HaChamah, the Blessing of the Sun. In ancient rabbinic tradition, it commemorates the moment...
Blessed are those who read the whole Bible
I laughed out loud when I read this week’s question. Since I’ve preached and written about “Blessed are those who read the whole Bible,” it seemed something of a quandary to identify one passage or verse. I can’t. The reality...
Climate Change: A Moral Imperative to Act
Climate change calls us to become humble—a virtue most religions preach, and a word which has the same roots as humus. We must literally return to earth.
