Earth Etudes for Elul (eBook)

Spiritual Reflections for the Season

Katy Z. Allen (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
126 Seiten
Strong Voices Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-9905361-5-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The month of Elul is a time for reflection, a time for tshuvah, of turning and re-turning to G!d and to our best selves, in preparation for the Days of Awe. It is time for heshbon hanefesh, examining our hearts and souls. Elul is the time for us to begin to make atonement for the things we wish we had or hadnt done, and to renew ourselves, to do all we can to get ourselves to change. Elul is a time to turn away from the ways in which we have missed the mark and to make restitution as needed. To help you on this journey, you will find in this volume a series of reflections for the month of Elul, divrei Earthteachings that connect Earth and Torah. These poems and essays are ';etudes' that remind us that we cannot disconnect ourselves from all that surrounds us and that we are part of an intertwined whole. Use this volume to help you expand your own reflections about tshuvah: read a few etudes a day or even select by theme. Themes include climate change, community and covenant, cycles, nature, gardening, personal behavior, rituals, and turning. These reflections, meditations filled with Jewish wisdom, are written by rabbis, hazzans, environmentalists, gardeners, activists, educators, storytellers, poets, scientists and other spiritual leaders, reflecting many points of view and ways of looking at the world and the process of tshuvah. The editor, Rabbi Katy Allen of Mayan Tikvah-A Wellspring of Hope, is the co-founder and leader of the Jewish Climate Action Network (JCAN) and the facilitator of the One Earth Collaborative, a program of Open Spirit in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Inhalt

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Elul 1
  Alarm Clock for Our Souls
  From the Perspective of the Ninth of Av
  I Am My Beloved and My Beloved is Me
Elul 2
  Keeping Agreements as Spiritual Practice
  Water Down the Wall
  Beginnings and T’shuvah
Elul 3
  Elul's Dayenu
  T’shuvah and Eden
  Anticipation
Elul 4
  Ready for Withering Flowers
  Personal Reflections for Elul: Mindful Turning to the Path of Love
Elul 5
  Gratitude
  Elul: The Month for Climate Action
  Three Levels of Holiness
Elul 6
  Living with Change
  Fields Open
  The Important Ten Percent
Elul 7
  Journey to a Mountain Pond
  The Known and the Unknown
Elul 8
  Return to the Land of Your Soul
  For Lifts
Elul 9
  Invitation
  Caring for the Planet
  Growing T'shuvah
Elul 10
  The Earth Is Crying Out in Pain
  Earth Rituals
  A Broken Sewer Pipe
Elul 11
  Gardening Partners
  Changing Ourselves
  Resistance
Elul 12
  Detroit, Our Spiritual Journeys, and Coming Back to Life
  T’shuvah and Beauty
Elul 13
  Movement Building and the Body
  The Emergence of Aliveness
Elul 14
  Sweet and Sour Grapes
  Elements
  Wasting Food
Elul 15
  Elul Joy and Love
  Reflections on the Seasons of My Mourning
  An Old Problem
Elul 16
  Returning to Diversity
  Rainbows
Elul 17
  Sunrise, Sunset—Evening the Frayed Edges of Our Lives
  Reconnecting with the Lands of My Birth
Elul 18
  Remembering Earth
  Spiritual Charity and the Tale of Two Seas
Elul 19
  Time to Rest
  Walking Prayer; Dancing T’shuvah
Elul 20
  Returning to Our Pond
  The Humility of Rabbits
  Elul: A Time to Start Shifting Our Imperiled Planet onto a Sustainable Path
Elul 21
  Community and Covenant
  Natural Awe and Artistic Representations
  Saying Farewell with Each Breath, Starting Anew
Elul 22
  Another Blue Day
  Re-Remembering Who We Are
  Enfold me, Earth
Elul 23
  The Compost Bins in Our Heart
  Searching for the Tree of Heaven
Elul 24
  Seeing the Beauty
  Collective Versus Personal Action in the Jewish Bible
  Circling Home
Elul 25
  Shemittah Seder
  Confession
  Choosing Again What Is Good
Elul 26
  Celebrating the Shemittah Cycle
  Resilience in the Face of Adversity
Elul 27
  Saving the Earth to Save Our Children
  Today the World Is Pregnant with Possibility, and So Are We
Elul 28
  Eco-Kaddish Blessing
  Repentance, Prayer, and Deeds of Righteous Action Will Stop Climate Change
  I Can Do Something
Elul 29
  Rocks in my Life
  Bringing Truth to Power
Biographical Notes
Permissions
Theme Index
Author Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.8.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The Earth Etude Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebensdeutung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• ISBN-10: 0-9905361-5-7 / 0990536157
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9905361-5-4 / 9780990536154