man's responsibility to protect nature

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1. The Story of Creation and our Ecological Crisis

   Rabbi Elchanan Samet

   Some have claimed that the Torah is to blame for humanity's destructive treatment of nature, and that God's commandments led to ecological disaster. A closer look at the Creation stories reveal that this statement is untrue.

2. Preservation of Nature – Human Responsibility

   The Structure & Story of Book I

   Dr. Beni Gesundheit | Hour

   Unit I, Tehillim 3-14

   Tehillim 3-14, the first unit in Book 1, forms a chiastic structure around its central mizmor, Tehillim 8. This mizmor describes the place of man in relation to God and the creation. The contextual interpretation will be used to show how parallel verses in proximal chapters surrounding this mizmor reinforce the concept that the respect given to man places upon him the responsibility to take care of creation.

   The overall structure and story of Book 1, mizmorim 1-41, are presented using contextual interpretation.

3. Humanity, Nature, and Their Symbiosis: The Environmental Crisis in Biblical Thought

   Yael Leibowitz

   תאריך פרסום: 2023 | | 50 minutes

   This lecture will examine the ways in which the relationship between humanity and nature, as presented in Tanakh, can have a profound impact on our understanding of our responsibilities towards the physical world we inhabit. From hurting and killing animals to how we should be treating the land and nature around us.