Ecology & the Jewish Spirit
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Sacred Place
1. Adam, Adamah, and Adonai: The Relationship between Humans, Nature, and God in the Bible
JEFF SULTAR
2. Befriending the Desert Owl
SHAMU FENYVESI
3. (Mis)reading Genesis: A Response to Environmentalist Critiques of Judaism
NEAL JOSEPH LOEVINGER
4. Is There Only One Holy Land?
BRADLEY SHAVIT ARTSON
5. How Wilderness Forms a Jew
ELLEN BERNSTEIN
6. A Sentient Universe
EVERETT GENDLER
7. Practical Kabbalah: A Family History
CHARLES FENYVESI
8. Jewish Perspectives on Limiting Consumption
ELIEZER DIAMOND
9. New York Is a Girl
ROBERT SAND
Sacred Time
Cycles of the Jewish Year
10. The Sun, the Moon, and the Seasons: Ecological Implications of the Hebrew Calendar
DEBRA J. ROBBINS
11. “In Your Goodness, You Renew Creation”: The Creation Cycles of the Jewish Liturgy
LAWRENCE TROSTER
12. Shabbat and the Sabbatical Year
DAN FINK
13. The Land of Your Soul
MARC SIRINSKY
The Holidays
14. Rain and the Calendar
ELLEN COHN
15. Sukkot: Holiday of Joy
ELLEN BERNSTEIN
16. Sukkot: Gathering the Boughs
DAN FINK
17. A History of Tu B’Sh’vat
ELLEN BERNSTEIN
18. The Tu B’Sh’vat Seder
ELLEN BERNSTEIN
19. Purim Rivers and Revels
DAN FINK
20. The Parsley versus the Potato: A Passover Reminiscence
EVERETT GENDLER
21. Leaving Egypt
DAN FINK
22. Grow Your Own—Barley, That Is!
EILEEN ABRAMS
23. Mountain Paths
DAN FINK
24. In Search of the Omer
ELLEN COHN
25. Of Dust, Ashes, Comets, and a Three-Year-Old
DAN FINK
Sacred Community
26. Cosmos and Chaos: Biblical Views of Creation
NEIL GILLMAN
27. Restoring a Blessing
SHAMU FENYVESI
28. What Is the Common Wealth?
DAVID EHRENFELD
29. Jewish Agricultural Law: Ethical First Principles and Environmental Justice
VICTOR RABOY
30. The Blessings of Holiness
LAWRENCE TROSTER
31. Nature, Spirit, Body
SHIRA DICKER
32. Judaism’s Environmental Laws
BARRY FREUNDEL
33. Business and Environment: A Case Study
PHILIP J. BENTLEY
34. Between Dust and Divinity: Maimonides
and Jewish Environmental Ethics
DAN FINK
35. What Does the Hour Demand? Environmentalism As Self-Realization
DAVID GEDZELMAN
36. Living As If God Mattered: Heschel’s View of Nature and Humanity
MARC SWETLITZ
37. How Community Forms a Jew
ELLEN BERNSTEIN
Notes
About the Contributors
Index
