Topic Tags: environment

“In the ripeness of the Ingathering, take of the seven species. / Shoulder your basket, golden or willow-green.”

“We signed on to a covenant: / If we take care of the earth / it will take care of us.”

“I saw, in our decaf, the plea for rain / we ask on behalf of the god of our ancestors”

“Through the hundreds of mitzvot / You are trying to teach us / How to live a life / In reverence of interconnection…”

A blessing for a day with clean air.

“May our breaths continue / And our health and the health of all / Be preserved / In this time of haze, fire and climate disaster.”

Prayer for transferring a deceased body for the process of “natural organic reduction,” also known as “human composting”

“the prayer was dance”

This ritual can be used as a way to enter into a Tu B’shvat seder or teaching session or as an intention-setting or witnessing ritual for an environmental action

“Be safe, / Be warm, / Be dry”