Earth Etude for Elul 29 This Is Where It All Begins
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...
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Maxine Lyons
5 days ago2 min
Earth Etude for Elul 28 Hineni- A Heart-centered Etude for this Season
I am practicing “active hope”– focusing my efforts to align with others dedicated to showing up to be counted together, to make a...
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Akiko Yonekawa
6 days ago2 min
Earth Etude - Elul 27 Returning to Potential
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...
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Rabbi Marisa Elana James
Sep 292 min
Earth Etude for Elul 26 Tending The Earth
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...
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Rabbi Steven J. Rubenstein, BCC
Sep 282 min
A Photographic Essay of TeshuvahIn Seven “Verses”
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...
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Thea Iberall, PhD
Sep 272 min
Earth Etude for Elul 24 Past, Present, and Future
I'm at a shoreline retreat rocking on the dining hall porch. I'm thinking about how vulnerable everything is: people, the land, nature....
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Ivy Helman
Sep 262 min
Earth Etude for Elul 23 On Gardening and Our Spiritual Gardens
“ 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...
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Carly Sachs
Sep 251 min
Earth Etude for Elul 22 The Thread of Elul
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...
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Kohenet Sephirah Oshkello
Sep 242 min
GoldenRod’s Teaching for Elul
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...
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Judith Black
Sep 231 min
Earth Etude for Elul 20 Humans and Beavers
A short reflection The beaver’s small black nose was gliding towards its lodge. The people sat idling in their SUVs waiting impatiently...
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Andy Oram
Sep 222 min
Earth Etude for Elul 19Greenwashing initiatives pollute the mikvah
Insincere gestures toward saving the climate fill the news these days. Governments classify biomass as a low-carbon energy source when ...
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Rabbi Margaret Frisch-Klein
Sep 212 min
Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall...
“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...
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Sheryl J. Shapiro
Sep 202 min
Trace
In this chilly September twilight tufts of cottontail are flattened on the street the body drenched, glistening The piercing eyes of the...
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Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD
Sep 192 min
Zazu Dreams - Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle --A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era
Our collaboration combines four generations: Zazu (the dreamer), Cara/Mommia (the storyteller), Micaela/Nana (the artist), and Grand...
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Rabbi Margie Jacobs
Sep 162 min
Earth Etude for Elul 13 Uncovering the Moon: The Compass of Compassion
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...
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Rabbi Paul Plotkin
Sep 151 min
Learn to Acknowledge Defeat
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...
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Rabbi David Seidenberg
Sep 143 min
God's eyes on the Land: Why are ancestors chose a land "of hills and valleys"
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...
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Leah F. Cassorla, Ph.D.
Sep 132 min
Earth Etude for Elul 10 Climate and the Sh'ma
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...
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Lisa M Miller
Sep 121 min
I COME HOME
walk my wild rocky woodland— indigo bunting families katydids, a woodpecker, the rushing creek timbre. God. In tones solstice gold...
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Rabbi Robin Damsky
Sep 112 min
Earth Etude for Elul 8Dropping Our Leaves
In his book, This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, Alan Lew, of blessed memory, teaches us that the arc of the High Holy Days...
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