Expanded awareness and the voices of other creatures יום אומר. יום ליום יביע אמר ולילה ללילה יחוה דעת. (תהילים י״ט…
Category: Animals
When the Wolf Visits the Lamb
Isaiah’s animals, a phone call during COVID, and the work of hope Words offered on the topic of “hope,” the…
Noah in the Great Bear Rainforest
The ark, the raven, and a place that knows how to find balance Photograph by Laura Duhan-Kaplan The Great Bear…
What My Mother Knew
Isaiah’s Long View of Comfort Today is Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of Comfort. We read one of Isaiah’s most beautiful…
Noah's Raven: Honoring R. Arthur Waskow
RAVEN: A WORD OF TORAH IN HONOUR OF R. ARTHUR WASKOW Z”L Rabbi Arthur Waskow passed away on October 20,…
Land: Look up From Your Screen and Listen
Land says: The land and everything that fills it, the world and all who dwell in it, are God’s (Psalms…
Eagle Feather: I Carried You Back
Eagle story. It’s not quite a story of sin and redemption. But it is a story of crime and reconciliation—a…
Free on-line course: Perek Shira, Song of the Land
Please join me—and my co-teachers—for a free on-line course this June. We’ll explore ecological wisdom from three perspectives: ancient Jewish,…
Monstrous Other: A Case Study
Animals in Deuteronomy. How does Moses, the narrator, see them? As Other than human, mostly. And mostly not in a…