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

Contributor(s): Bernstein, Ellen, 1953-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Woodstock, Vt. : Jewish Lights Pub., [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Edition: First editionDescription: 277 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1879045885 (hardback)Other title: Ecology and the Jewish spiritSubject(s): Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Agricultural laws and legislation (Jewish law) | Fasts and feasts -- JudaismDDC classification: 296.3/8 LOC classification: BM538.H85 | E36 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and indexes.
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 enviornmental 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.

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

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 enviornmental 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.

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