Deepening Our Connection to the Natural World

When we live outside of right relationship with the natural world, we curse ourselves.

Nature’s embrace of our fragility is empathic, borne of the Earth’s deep awareness of its own vulnerability.

Things we can do as we live in the end of the world as we know it.

When I remember water, I allow myself to be transformed, to remember myself in utero, untouched by the violence of this world.

We need to reimagine globally how we live without using fossil fuel and make significant changes in a very short span of time.

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.

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).