Eco-Hasid! – 50 entries
Neohasid.org has always been a source for eco-Torah and liturgy. Fully embodied and enlivened spiritual practice means practice that is embedded in the more-than-human world that surrounds and embraces us.
Rabbi David Seidenberg's book, Kabbalah and Ecology: God's Image in the More-Than-Human World, is now out in paperback!
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Earthprayers on neohasid.org ~ ten options. One is Pope Francis's Prayer for Our Earth ~ presented with side-by-side Hebrew translation and English
Shirat ha'asavim ~ The Song of the Grasses
A rough recording of the well-known Naomi Shemer tuneWhat the mute world is saying
In this world, what is further below branches off from a higher place...Listen to and download the Harachaman for the land in the Sabbatical year
Add this to Birkat Hamazon"Shmita: The Purpose of Sinai"
It's the Sabbatical SHMITAH year! Read about the Torah's radical blueprint for sustainability. And then click here for even more Shmitah learning.Council of All Beings
An outline for the Council of All Beings RitualKashroots: Noah, Leviticus, and an Eco-History of the Kosher Laws
Every religion is shaped by a place and teaches how to live in that place. I’ve always believed that keeping kosher was not just a way of creating Jewish identity, but also a way to create a society attuned to the land. . .Breaking Open the Abyss – on Tisha B'Av and the Gulf
When King David disturbs the foundation stone of the world, the waters of the t'hom, the abyss, rise up through the breach King David has made, threatening to destroy the world27th of Iyyar: Rainbow Day
What can we do to commemorate the rainbow covenant of the Noah story? What rituals, liturgies, actions? Read (and record) suggestions here.How to make a Kabbalstic Tu Bishvat Seder
Instructions on how to run a seder, how to use the blessing from the first Tu Bishvat seder, and how to use the One-page Haggadah chart.All the Tu Bish'vat Resources on neohasid
Dominion
Dominion in the Bible is not the anti-environmental concept that both environmentalists and anthropocentrists would imagine...A Prayer for the Earth – Hebrew and English
Y'kum Purkan Lish'maya: A prayer for the earth, for use in your synagogue, minyan, or havurah; for Earth Day, Rainbow Day, Shabbat Noach, Shabbat Behar/Bechukotai, everyday.Save the Negev
Protect the Bedouin – Protect the desertBlessing the Sun
Once in 28 years – that's how often this blessing comes around. Here's a liturgy we used that weaves together Kabbalah and deep ecology, along with links to more resources.Blessing from the first published Tu Bish'vat Seder
From the 16/17th century seder manual, P'ri Eitz Hadar, based on the Kabbalah of the four worlds. The original seder calls on us to bring blessing to all creation.Eco-Torah on Sukkot
Teachings about Sukkot exploring the symbolism of the lulav species, the meaning of the Hoshanot prayers, the Tishrei cycle, the rules about s'khakh, and the waving of the lulav, in the light of ecology and the climate crisis.Hayom Harat Olam: Rosh Hashanah and Our Planet
A unique reading of the words we say when we hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah.Clouds, Yom Kippur, and Climate Change: In the Balance
Are our environmental "sins" are like an 'av, a thick cloud that will storm us, or like an 'anan, a cloud that ultimately will pass on?Hoshana Rabbah: new translation
The original Jewish earth prayersAn environmental Al Chet
For the sin of destroying God's creation...Ramak: "Love your fellow species like yourself"
Moshe Cordovero on the need to extend human ethical principles to animals and other lviing creatures.Rav Kook
Quotes from Abraham Isaac Kook on evolution, science, etc."To Prey or to Pray? The Lessons of Famine"
On images of cannibalism in Eikhah: an eco-interpretation.Kinah LeKhurban Gan Eden
Richard Kaplan's eco-lament for Tisha B'AvCanfei Nesharim and the Fortressing of Orthodoxy
Why neohasid.org no longer links to CN.God's "body"
Heikhalot Rabbati on seeing the cosmos as the body of God.The Torah's Only "Inalienable Right": for the Land
Reb Duvid's Tikkun article on the intersection of human rights and ecology. How can human rights become part of ecology? "Human Rights and Ecology" breaks new theological ground, and includes a section on the Bedouin.Between the Fires: Lag B'Omer, Flood Day and Rainbow Day
A liturgy for the day before Lag B'omer leading into Lag B'omer, related to global warming and the flood of Noah, which began on the 17th of Iyyar.The Giving Tree: A Way to Honor Our Vision for Israel
Planting a tree for the future sounds like second nature, a wise investment for both Israel and the planet. But whether you think about doing this at Tu Bish'vat or during the Omer when it's really planting time, it's a little more complicated than donating to JNF...Birkat Ha-ilanot
Once a year there is Jewish custom is to say a special blessing on flowering fruit trees. It happens in spring, especially during the Omer, but it's also a good teaching for Tu Bish'vat. You'll also find some other good tree texts here.Liberation and the Land
"An Earth Covenant Perspective on Human Rights" taught at the first Rabbis for Human Rights Conference in NYC.Longer meditations on Pri Etz Hadar
Imagine a Jewish practice which has the purpose of restoring all the species and creatures, and all the sparks they contain, to the fullness of blessing.The Flood
Using the Biblical flood story and how we can keep taking small steps to build an ark against the flood of global warming.About StoptheFlood!
Stop the Flood! provides spiritual tools to help people to take personal action, to share what action or change they're doing, and to partner with each other.Shabbos!
Turn on Shabbos and make the world cooler!The Land Ethic
The essential parts of Aldo Leopold's famous essay, including: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."Kabbalah and Ecology
This Reb Duvid's 2004 article from The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. For the new book by Cambridge Press, see here.Rambam and the Earth
Maimonides' Guide is the foundation for any Jewish ecotheology.from The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature