With Tu B’Shevat coming up (tonight and tomorrow!), we wanted to point you to our friends at Canfei Nesharim, who are offering excellent resources to help us all experience a more meaningful “New Year of the Trees.” The following is a brief description, as well as a link to the material. Enjoy! (more…)
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Meaningful Tu B’Shevat Torah from Canfei Nesharim
Posted in Jewish Holidays, Judaism, tagged canfei nesharim, New Year of the Trees, Resources, Tu B'Shevat on February 8, 2009| 1 Comment »
Eating Holy Food in a Holy Way
Posted in Buying Local, Halakha, Jewish Ecology, Judaism, Rabbi Julian Sinclair, Taking Action, tagged canfei nesharim, ecology, eitz haim hee, food, free range, hazon, Judaism, Kosher, local, michael pollan, omnivore's dilemna, Organic, parsha, Rabbi Julian Sinclair, sustainabilitiy, tuv ha'aretz on January 9, 2009| 1 Comment »
In continuation of our discussion on local food, the following is a Dvar Torah Rabbi Sinclair wr
ote for Canfei Nesharim‘s Eitz Chaim Hee Torah Commentary Series.
Do we know who grows our food? Does it matter? This question was first raised for me five years ago when I was the Campus Rabbi at England’s Cambridge University. Invited to High Table dinner with the professors at one of the colleges, I was surprised to discover that most of the conversation among some of Britain’s leading minds revolved around the food.
“This venison’s inedible,” complained an irascible professor of physics. “Absolutely,” agreed an elderly Nobel Laureate. “We had a cook here in the seventies who would never serve an animal he didn’t know
personally.” (more…)
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