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BrowseThis Dvar Torah finds the relevant lessons in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire through the prism of the communal sin offering mentioned in Parshat Vayikra.
There are three key values our traditions teach us about caring for the environment: it is God's world, we do not control the world but are part of it, we must exercise power responsibly.
There are three key values our traditions teach us about caring for the environment: it is God's world, we do not control the world but are part of it, we must exercise power responsibly.
A discussion about blessings and intention. Originally published for the Hazon CSA Listserve.
This is part of the on-gong series of Divrei Torah being published on the NECHAMA, Jewish Response to Disaster web site and subsequently sent to our e-mail community.
These materials are posted as part of Jewcology’s Year of Jewish Learning on the Environment, in partnership with Canfei Nesharim. Jewcology thanks the Shedlin Outreach Foundation and the ROI community for their generous support, which made the Jewcology project possible.
How do we transform the lesson of Tu BiSh’vat – our responsibility to care for the earth and honor the foods of the season – into something that is relevant to us at each meal with which we are blessed?
Relating the New Year of Trees to the work of disaster recovery when such devastation affects not only humanity, but the natural environment.
A Ve'ahavta Tu b'Shvat message.
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