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Preserving Creation

The wonders of God’s creation are all around us: the air we breath, 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.
 

Photo by Rich Quindry

My Thoughts Awaken Me to See You

By Rabbi Moses ibn Ezra | Poem

Appreciation of the sun's creation by the 11th-century poet and philosopher [more]

Found In: Morning Service, Preserving Creation

Tags: Birkat HaChammah: Blessing of the Sun

A Prayer for the Sea

By Rabbi David Mevorach Seidenberg | Prayer

For Rainbow Day (when Noah and company left the ark and received the rainbow covenant)and everyday while oil gushes into the Gulf of Mexico [more]

Found In: Torah Portion: Parashah, Daily Prayer & Mindfulness, Preserving Creation

Tags: Noakh

Hardened Hearts

By Ellen Dannin | Complete Ceremony

A ritual to recognize and cast away the hardness we have allowed to exist in our hearts. [more]

Found In: Torah Portion: Parashah, Preserving Creation, Passover

Tags: Va'eira

Lo-Watt Shabbat

Adapted from COEJL | Article

Tips on how to prepare for reduced energy consumption on Shabbat, some of which can be extended into daily life [more]

Found In: Contemporary Shabbat Practice, Preserving Creation

Tags: eco-friendly

Dipping Parsley into Waters of Tears: The Earth Cries Out to Us

By Rabbi Warren Stone | Reading

Accompaniment to dipping the greens [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder, Preserving Creation

Tags: karpas

The Fifteenth of Shevat

By Shin Shalom | Poem

An Israeli poet imagines a heavenly ledger filled with Earth's beauty [more]

Found In: Preserving Creation, Rosh Chodesh Shevat: Jan.-Feb., Tu b'Shevat

One for Each Night: A Chanukah Study Guide for a Brighter Future

Project of Georgia Interfaith Power & Light in cooperation with Congregation Bet Haverim | Ritual Component

A ritual for installing a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) each night of Chanukah [more]

Found In: Hanukkah Candle Lighting, Preserving Creation

Tags: eco-friendly

A Prayer for Creation

By Rabbi David Mevorach Seidenberg | Prayer

Appropriate at all times and particularly suitable during the week that the chapter of Noah is the Torah portion [more]

Found In: Torah Portion: Parashah, Morning Service, Preserving Creation

Tags: Noakh, yotzer

Lamentations for the New Millennia

By Ann Metlay | Poem

Mourning the deterioration of natural resources [more]

Found In: Preserving Creation, Tisha b'Av & Minor Fast Days

Greening Your Simkhah

From the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation | Document

Guidelines developed by the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Illinois, the first (and only) house of worship in the world to receive Platinum-Level certification from the US Green Building Council [more]

Found In: Lifecycles, Preserving Creation, Everyday Holiness, Holidays, Shabbat

Tags: eco-friendly