Any of the programs can be presented with Judaic content or focus on a Midrash
you may be studying. Content will be modified to suit the ages of the participants. - With any of the Live Animal Programs learn the Hebrew names for the animals you will meet.
- Learn about how Noah was the first to enact the Endangered
Species Act!
- Take a Nature Walk and learn the Hebrew
names of plants, animals and other wonders you may find.
- Learn
about Nature and the environment through games and discussion and how it ties in with the Commandments of Bal Tash'chit
(Do Not Destroy) and more.....
The
life of mitzvot is like a small garden with 613 flowers, each of which needs to be cultivated and cherished so that the magnificent
beauty of Jewish life in its entirety may be achieved and appreciated. The task before the Jewish people, as the task confronting
all of humanity, is not to discard or disregard the garden of ultimate values and replace it with this single new overriding
concern: environmentalism. Our task is to discover within the garden of 613 flowers those few or many which demand of us attention
to the problems of the environment.
- From "Jewish Environmental Values: The Dynamic
Tension Between Nature and Human Needs" by Rabbi Saul Berman. Rabbi Saul Berman is an Associate Professor
of Jewish Studies at the Stern College of Yeshiva University.
