Earth Focus

Fire Anger Forests

At Kabbalat Shabbat this evening we'll look into the connections between our inner fire-anger and the that of the Earth. I love how we...

A religious obligation to Mother Earth

While I was teaching about Earth focused Halacha a few weeks ago, one of the participants, Lisa Apfelberg, came up with this great...

Bein Adam l'Adamah: Halachah of the Earth

Traditional Halachah (Jewish law) is organized in two overarching categories: The relationship between Jews and God/ess (בין אדם למקום /...

Child sacrifice and Shmitah

Thoughts about this week's Haftarah Shmitah is a practice in thinking about the future and in our ability to comprehend a time beyond...

The Omer - a physical offering practice

The 49 day ritual of Counting the Omer has never really appealed to me before this year. Growing up, it was just about counting days,...

Pesach: Quiet at the heart of chaos

Purim is always a hectic time, but this year it really overdid it. And now here we are in a world with around half a million ill and some...

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