Preserving Creation

The wonders of God’s creation are all around us: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. But it is easy for us to take this bounty for granted—or worse, contribute to its destruction. It is our duty to tend to what has been given to us. These rituals and prayers remind us of the sacred nature of that task.
 

Latest Rituals

Prayer for One Entering Natural Organic Reduction

Prayer for transferring a deceased body for the process of “natural organic reduction,” also known as “human composting”
  • by Rabbi Seth Goldstein
burial, eco-friendly, environment
small tree shown far away in bright green field with blue sky and clouds

A Ritual Honoring the Living Waters

“May I use these waters wisely”
  • by Elizabeth Caplun, Adva Chattler, Batya Diamond, Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Motzkin Rubenstein, Sheryl Shapiro
eco-friendly, water
A Ritual Honoring the Living Waters

The Word is Wind

“the prayer was dance”
  • by Tzivia Gover
environment, nature, shema
light skinned young woman in a forest, hair blowing in the wind, arms swinging as if she is dancing. she wears a torqouise blue long tank top and jeans, and has long straight light brown hair.

Water Guardian Ritual: For a Tu B’shvat Seder or Environmental Action

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
  • by Rabbi Janet Madden, Hila Ratzabi, Janice Steinberg & Judith Kerman
eco-friendly, environment, seder, tu bi'shevat seder, water
white hands cupping water over a body of water

Congregation

“their roots twine / mycorrhizal networks / like neural pathways / bond this arboreal congregation”
  • by Sheri Lindner
eco-friendly, tree
big tree with closeup of large root system

Blessing the Earth

“I bend and bless the earth / with my own brokenness”
  • by Elizabeth Caplun
earth, healing, trauma
person's hand touching pink flowers against dark background

In Praise of Creation

“Praise the heartbeat of the universe”
  • by Elizabeth Caplun
creation, eco-friendly, environment
view of mountains in blue and white sky with clouds with person on a rocky outcrop small in the scene

Unetaneh Tokef: Facing our Environmental Challenge

“We stand on the edge of possibility and loss”
  • by Rabbi Nathan Martin
climate crisis, environment, teshuvah, unetaneh tokef
Unetaneh Tokef: Facing our Environmental Challenge

Sabbath for the Land

“The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.”
  • by Martha Hurwitz
earth, environment, land, Sabbath, shmitah
Sabbath for the Land

Shmitah

“I went to the edge of a forest … To remember”
  • by Tiferet Welch
shmitah
Shmitah

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Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

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Learning to Say "We": Writing Identity

In this immersion, we will reflect and expand on our personal experiences of identity, using writing exercises and in-depth discussions to think about, challenge, discover, explore, and experiment with different ways to identify ourselves, to consider how those ways connect us to and separate us from others, and how they represent and misrepresent aspects of who we are.

Four sessions, starting June 15th

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