Peas on Earth, a song by the Jewish environmental educators of the Teva Learning Center (Fall 2010)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Shared on:

28 September 2011 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Categories:

Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, humor, peace, Prayers of Jewish Farmers, punning, Teva Learning Alliance, זמירות zemirot

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	Peas on Earth (everybody now) Peas on Earth — you’ve got to Grab a fork and lettuce work For Peas on Earth
	Come animals and pea-ple, each and every one Let’s start a revolution, powered by the sun Bees and worms and unicorns, every human bean We’ll sow the seeds of happiness and plant some joy between
	We’ll work the soil together, beeting hearts unite Our faith will bloom and blossom, reaching toward the light Squash all melon-cauliiness, dreams take root below If we give our garden love and carrots bound to grow.
	A pear of hands to nurture, and turnip soil for good Weeds are quite dill-ightful just misunderstood Watering with wishes, the bounty starts to sprout. If you have some thyme t-asparagus you could help out.
	So, colored black or colored white or even collard green May every per-sunflower and join the garden scene All across the nation, the movement has begun Kale-ifornia, Okra-homa, Washingtonion

Thank you to Elissa Brown, Noah Slovin, Diane Litwin, Rebekah Steinfeld, Annie Bass, and Rachel Katz for sharing this recording. (Aharon Varady held the camera steady.) Lyrics by Elissa Brown, Noah Slovin, and Diane Litwin. Thank you to Teva Learning Alliance for radiating on everyone a light that’s shining like the sun. Thanks to Hazon for sharing their pea costume. The more that we give the more we’ve got to give. It’s the way that we live, and it’s what we’re livin’ for! L’shana tova!

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Aharon N. Varady

Aharon Varady is the founding director of the Open Siddur Project. A community planner (M.C.P, DAAP/University of Cincinnati.) and Jewish educator (M.A.J.Ed., the William Davidson School of Education), his work in open-source Judaism has been written about in the Yiddish Forverts, the Atlantic Magazine, Tablet, and Haaretz. If you find any egregious mistakes in his work, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also transcribes and translates prayers, besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project.)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

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Peas on Earth, a song by the Jewish environmental educators of the Teva Learning Center (Fall 2010)

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