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Check out these Climate Torah Resources – teachings from biblical ancestors to contemporary scholars, with suggested questions to spark discussion and reflection. We encourage you to use them with your Dayenu Circle, your Hillel or congregation, in your classroom, with friends, family, or on your own.*
May these narratives of Jewish resistance and resilience challenge us, comfort us, and inspire us to action.
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Where Does Our Power Live?Driven by Jewish values and wisdom, we now have a window of opportunity to make a difference on climate justice, for this generation and for those to come. How will you use your power during the election season?
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action•216 Views•November 8, 2024•Environment,Social Responsibility,Climate Justice,Election,Power,Justice,Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action,Empowerment,Environmental Justice,Voting,Lo Bashamaim,Action,Social Justice,Midrash,It Is Not in Heaven,Courage,Social Action,Environmentalism,Dayenu,Rooted and Rising,Climate Change
Every Part of the TreeTrees appear throughout Jewish text and tradition as metaphors for human acts of justice and loving-kindness. Psalm 92 and Bamidbar Rabbah invite us to reflect on how we bring tree-like attributes, communally and individually, to the work for climate justice.
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action•210 Views•October 29, 2024•Climate Change,Climate,Courage,Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action,Environmental Justice,Dayenu,Sukkot,Psalms,Psalms 92,Kindness,Tzedek,Environment,Justice, Midrash,Social Justice,Trees,Midrash,Bamidbar Rabbah,Community,Tree,Environmentalism,Hope
Adaptation & AwakeningWe each have our own journey of awakening to the climate crisis. Ta’anit introduces us to categories of people and responses that can help us reflect
on our own individual and communal responses to the crisis.
Reciprocity & CovenantMost human beings around the world feel the effects of climate change first in the form of too much or too little rain. Jewish holidays, rituals, and daily liturgy are deeply tied to rain and the seasonal and agricultural cycles.
In the Same BoatThe climate crisis affects us all but communities on the frontlines of this crisis experience its impacts first and worst, from daily exposure to toxic drilling, and more. Vayikra Rabbah invites us to consider our interconnectedness and collective responsibility.
Facing Fear, Sowing Courageous ActionKohelet (Ecclesiastes) 3:3 teaches that "A season is set for everything.” As we work to build a just, livable future for all, the wisdom of Torah can help us move through fear to courageous action.
