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Tu B'Shvat: Deepening Our Connection to the Natural World

A variety of voices for living with the Earth and its fullness.

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When we live outside of right relationship with the natural world, we curse ourselves.
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Nature’s embrace of our fragility is empathic, borne of the Earth’s deep awareness of its own vulnerability.
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When I remember water, I allow myself to be transformed, to remember myself in utero, untouched by the violence of this world.
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We need to reimagine globally how we live without using fossil fuel and make significant changes in a very short span of time.
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I’ve been part of a global, interfaith effort that has revived my hopes. It has also reminded me about the deeper power of small acts.
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Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb outlines the five pillars that serve as a base for the Jewish environmental movement: sufficiency (dayenu), resilience (kehillah), responsibility (akhrayut), justice (tzedek) and hope (tikvah).

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