Yonatan Neril and Leo Dee, "Eco Bible: An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus" (ICSD, 2021)
New Books in Environmental Studies
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The Importance of Praying in Nature
For the past two and a half years of the pandemic, la banit fila has mostly prayed in a forest next to the synagon building that we normally pray in. To go into nature is to account or god's creationinto really ah, you know, to connect t o other species. The book of psalms talks about a tree singing. And then the midrash and jewish i says that every blade of grass has an angel above it telling it to grow. You ar sages of the past few centuries said that a rock is at a very high spiritual level, because it is just sitting there the whole day praising godsot t lie on a rock. A
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