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Category: Parashat Bereshit Dvar Torah
Why Are We Violent? A “Cain And Abel” Perspective
The rabbinic treatment of the Cain and Abel story warns us about our inclinations towards violence and how we encounter others.
Rabbi Dan Ornstein
April 3, 2025
Parashat Bereshit
Parashat Bereshit Dvar Torah
Fat Liberation in Gan Eden
God created humans with naked bodies and no shame. Now, we live in a world that wants us to forget that we were made in ...
Rebecca Galin
November 14, 2024
JTS Senior Sermon
Learning
We Have a Responsibility to the Earth
Some interpret Creation as an allowance to plunder the Earth. However, that is a misconception; we have a responsibility to the Earth.
Rabbi Miriam Midlarsky Lichtenfeld
May 15, 2024
Climate and Environment
Kohelet (Ecclesiastes)
The Mitzvah of Environmental Sustainability
What does Judaism say about environmental sustainability? Yishuv Ha'olam is the mitzvah to build and maintain a sustainable world.
Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin
January 3, 2024
CJLS
Climate and Environment
