Ma'yan Tikvah's Divrei Earth

Rabbi Katy Allen Written for Yom Kippur 5785, observed at Nobscot Scout Reservation, Sudbury, MA Inspired by Eileh Ezkarah: These I...

Human beings have often pondered the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. As a gardener, I think more about the cycle of...

I am practicing “active hope”– focusing my efforts to align with others dedicated to showing up to be counted together, to make a...

As a child growing up in Los Angeles, I had simple plans for adult life: to be an artist, teacher, actor, and/or mom. In my actual...

We do live in overwhelming times, as have so many of our ancestors, but I suspect that my great-grandparents’ lack of the internet and...

1. God said, “Let there be vegetation of all kinds to create a sense of awe and wonder in my creatures and let them be stewards over this...

I'm at a shoreline retreat rocking on the dining hall porch. I'm thinking about how vulnerable everything is: people, the land, nature....

“ And the divine sent the human out of the Garden of Eden, to till the soil, from where humanity had been taken.”  - Genesis 3:23   Our...

What does thunder say and what storm or visitor has come to quench the secret   thirst of the soul and how different the soft knocking of...

As we journey through the Wheel of the Year , it is a gift to cultivate the soil and learn from the cycles of the earth.  Elul - a month...

A short reflection The beaver’s small black nose was gliding towards its lodge. The people sat idling in their SUVs waiting impatiently...

Insincere gestures toward saving the climate fill the news these days. Governments classify biomass as a low-carbon energy source when  ...

“Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall...”Trees are like friends. Torah is a Tree of Life, so says Proverbs. We sing this as part of the Torah...

In this chilly September twilight tufts of cottontail are flattened on the street the body drenched, glistening The piercing eyes of the...

Our collaboration combines four generations: Zazu (the dreamer), Cara/Mommia (the storyteller), Micaela/Nana (the artist), and Grand...

What “covers over” your ability to access compassion? What might it mean for compassion to be a compass for you? Growing up, I was taught...

I have been a vegetable and herb gardener for the last 30 years. That means that I have had the pleasure of tasting wonderful tomatoes...

In Parshat Eikev , Deut 11:10-12, the Torah compares the land of Egypt to the land of Canaan. There are two distinctions made. The first...

One of my amazing 7th graders said to me that the second paragraph of the Sh’ma  (the  V’hayu ) says, in his words, “if we follow the...

walk my wild rocky woodland—  indigo bunting families katydids, a woodpecker, the rushing creek timbre. God.   In tones solstice gold...