Neohasid.org has always been a source for eco-Torah and liturgy. Fully embodied and enlivened spiritual practice means practice that is embedded in the more-than-human world that surrounds and embraces us.
Rabbi David Seidenberg's book, Kabbalah and Ecology: God's Image in the More-Than-Human World, is now out in paperback!
Get more info, read the introduction, here.
You can also ~ ten options. One is Pope Francis's Prayer for Our Earth ~ presented with side-by-side Hebrew translation and English
Every religion is shaped by a place and teaches how to live in that place. I’ve always believed that keeping kosher was not just a way of creating Jewish identity, but also a way to create a society attuned to the land. . .
When King David disturbs the foundation stone of the world, the waters of the t'hom, the abyss, rise up through the breach King David has made, threatening to destroy the world
Y'kum Purkan Lish'maya: A prayer for the earth, for use in your synagogue, minyan, or havurah; for Earth Day, Rainbow Day, Shabbat Noach, Shabbat Behar/Bechukotai, everyday.
Once in 28 years – that's how often this blessing comes around. Here's a liturgy we used that weaves together Kabbalah and deep ecology, along with links to more resources.
From the 16/17th century seder manual, P'ri Eitz Hadar, based on the Kabbalah of the four worlds. The original seder calls on us to bring blessing to all creation.
Teachings about Sukkot exploring the symbolism of the lulav species, the meaning of the Hoshanot prayers, the Tishrei cycle, the rules about s'khakh, and the waving of the lulav, in the light of ecology and the climate crisis.
Reb Duvid's Tikkun article on the intersection of human rights and ecology. How can human rights become part of ecology? "Human Rights and Ecology" breaks new theological ground, and includes a section on the Bedouin.
Planting a tree for the future sounds like second nature, a wise investment for both Israel and the planet. But whether you think about doing this at Tu Bish'vat or during the Omer when it's really planting time, it's a little more complicated than donating to JNF...
Once a year there is Jewish custom is to say a special blessing on flowering fruit trees. It happens in spring, especially during the Omer, but it's also a good teaching for Tu Bish'vat. You'll also find some other good tree texts here.
Imagine a Jewish practice which has the purpose of restoring all the species and creatures, and all the sparks they contain, to the fullness of blessing.
Stop the Flood! provides spiritual tools to help people to take personal action, to share what action or change they're doing, and to partner with each other.
The essential parts of Aldo Leopold's famous essay, including: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
This is the English translation of the liturgy, without explanations. See Ushpizin entry for an explanation of the order for the mothers. You can download the PDF for this liturgy, with Aramaic and Hebrew alongside the English, from either page.
Tashlikh was written at a time when no one could have imagined that human actions could deplete entire oceans. With meditations on the ocean from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
On Shavuot, when we celebrate receiving the Torah, we also celebrate the offering of the first fruits in the Temple, the bikurim. The offering was a supremely humble gesture. Yet without the small, perhaps wrinkled fruit of the bikurim, there could be no offering...