It's Your World

It's one thing to act responsibly, it's another to slip into nature-worship, that is, emphasizing environmentalism as our first obligation. That's not the Jewish approach, it's a form of paganism. The Torah teaches that the earth and everything in it was made for mankind's benefit. Pictures of puppies may be cute, but that's a very incomplete depiction of nature. If we need gas or oil to keep warm or power our SUV's, Judaism allows us to drill for it. It's not right to make the Torah fit the fad of the day.

I would add, there are more trees today in America than there were 100 years ago. It is time to stop substituting feel-good, narcissistic pseudoscience for the real thing.

"The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it " (Genesis 2:15) That statement comes even before any Jews were around. Seems pretty basic, no? I'm not seeing any Zeus statues or water nymphs here.......

The video is beautiful. This Earth is breathtakingly beautiful. My America is a country that inspires awe in its beauty. some of that beauty is not a healthy land. We are all one person. Each one of us doing our part helps keep the Earth healthy so it can renew itself, much like our own bodies. I don't know if we can make a difference at the personal level. The destruction seems to be so out of control. My state has been logged, gas drilled, oil drilled, deep mined, and strip mined to near death. The rivers have power station dams on them and industry dumps its waste in them. Now we are allowing another huge round of gas well drilling in Pennsylvania beneath the Marcellus Shale. It's on the internet you can look it up. ----------- I recycle, reuse, restore, and conserve. I urge others to do that too. How can my meager protections of the Earth ever be more than a speck when Industry and Big Business do damage on such a huge scale? Thanks.

This is a lovely little video with an important message. I have often wondered why AISH has so few offerings that have to do with the message within this video and I have written and asked about this. The message is so Right, and there is so much we can all do, as Jews, as responsible citizens, and as people inhabiting a world that is deeply about spiritual values, and in the celebration of all creation I think we need to hear about this, on a more constant basis, lest we forget, this beauty we are heir to. There are deep metaphoric connects that do bind us all, as part of Nature, to Nature, and as trees are to roots, and limbs and as we are part of the tree of life itself, it's a fitting tribute to this holiday to make such a lovely gem of a video.

Good video but it's short and I don't see a lot of this from Aish (albeit I am new here). Isn't taking care of our planet the ultimate implication of Tikkun Olam? This may seem like a random comment, but if every religious Jew were truly committed to these concepts they would go vegetarian immediately. Meat production and consumption is directly what is causing the most damage to the planet in the areas of health, environment, resources and even morals. And no, most kosher factories aren't any better despite what you are led to believe. This is just one comment but I'd really like to see some articles tackling these kinds of issues.

Thanks for projecting the idea of nature appreciation and conservation. Please go further and publish articles about what people can do to conserve what is left of wilderness and wildlife. Due to overpopulation and unrelenting depletion of wilderness habitat, we are rapidly extinguishing many species, and have brought thousands of them to the brink. Future generations will be truly saddened that this century had so little foresight, so little compassion, such lack of generosity of spirit for the future that it would eliminate most species of wild mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies.......Most of them are threatened, many of them critically. We are acting as though we hate our children by leaving them such a world.

Thanks for sharing Rabbi Moshe Goldstein of Boca Raton, FL.

Great video and message!

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