Ecology & the Jewish spirit : where nature and the sacred meet / edited and with introductions by Ellen Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernstein, Ellen, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Human ecology.

Agricultural laws and legislation (Jewish law).

Fasts and feasts--Judaism.

Fasts and feasts.

Physical Description:

277 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

1st Quality pbk. ed.

Other Title:

Ecology and the Jewish spirit

Place of Publication:

Woodstock, Vt. : Jewish Lights Pub., 2000.

Contents:

Adam, Adamah, and Adonai : the relationship between humans, nature, and God in the Bible / Jeff Sultar

Befriending the desert owl / Shamu Fenyvesi

(Mis)reading Genesis : a response to environmentalist critiques of Judaism / Neal Joseph Loevinger

Is there only one Holy Land? / Bradley Shavit Artson

How wilderness forms a Jew / Ellen Bernstein

A sentient universe / Everett Gendler

Practical Kabbalah : a family history / Charles Fenyvesi

Jewish perspectives on limiting consumption / Eliezer Diamond

New York is a girl / Robert Sand

Cycles of the Jewish year. The sun, the moon, and the seasons : ecological implications of the Hebrew calendar / Debra J. Robbins

"In your goodness, you renew creation" : the creation cycles of the Jewish liturgy / Lawrence Troster

Shabbat and the sabbatical year / Dan Fink

The land of your soul / Marc Sirinsky

The holidays. Rain and the calendar / Ellen Cohn

Sukkot : holiday of joy / Ellen Bernstein

Sukkot : gathering the boughs / Dan Fink

A history of Tu B'Sh'vat ; The Tu B'Sh'vat seder / Ellen Bernstein

Purim rivers and revels / Dan Fink

The parsley versus the potato : a Passover reminiscence / Everett Gendler

Leaving Egypt / Dan Fink

Grow your own

barley, that is! / Eileen Abrams

Mountain paths / Dan Fink

In search of the omer / Ellen Cohn

Of dust, ashes, comets, and a three-year-old / Dan Fink

Cosmos and chaos : biblical views of creation / Neil Gillman

Restoring a blessing / Shamu Fenyvesi

What is the common wealth? / David Ehrenfeld

Jewish agricultural law : ethical first principles and environmental justice / Victor Raboy

The blessings of holiness / Lawrence Troster

Nature, spirit, body / Shira Dicker

Judaism's environmental laws / Barry Freundel

Business and environment : a case study / Philip J. Bentley

Between dust and divinity : Maimonides and Jewish environmental ethics / Dan Fink

What does the hour demand? : environmentalism as self-realization / David Gedzelman

Living as if God mattered : Heschel's view of nature and humanity / Marc Swetlitz

How community forms a Jew / Ellen Bernstein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and indexes.

ISBN:

1580230822

9781580230827

OCLC:

51395680