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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The 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.
Trees 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.
We 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.
Kohelet (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.
Most 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.