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Arthur Waskow
Rabbi Arthur Waskow is the director of The Shalom Center. In 2013, Rabbi Waskow received T’ruah’s first Lifetime Achievement Award as a “Human Rights Hero.” His chapter, “Jewish Environmental Ethics: Adam and Adamah,” appears in Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality (Dorff & Crane, eds.; Oxford Univ. Press, 2013). Rabbi Waskow is the author of 22 books including Godwrestling, Seasons of Our Joy (JPS, 2012), and Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life. With Sister Joan Chittister and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chisht he co-authored The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and with with Rabbi Phyllis Berman wrote Freedom Journeys: Exodus & Wilderness Across Millennia (Jewish Lts, 2011). He edited Torah of the Earth (two volumes, eco-Jewish thought from earliest Torah to our own generation). These pioneering books on eco-Judaism are available at discount from “Shouk Shalom,” The Shalom center's online bookstore.
During the Aliyot | Tehilim Book 5 (Psalms 107–150) | Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat | Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System | 🌐 Earth Day (22 April) | Ecotastrophes | Epidemics & Pandemics | Erev Pesaḥ | Erev Shabbat | Extracanonical Megillot | Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry | 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th) | Yom haMabul (Day of the Flood, 17 Iyyar, Lev ba-Omer) | Yom haQeshet (Day of the Rainbow, 27 Iyyar) | Ḳaddish | Modern Miscellany | Motsei Shabbat | Mourning | Parashat b'Shalaḥ | Parashat Ḥayyei Sarah | Parashat Noaḥ | Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ | 7th Day of Pesaḥ | Psalms 148 | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Shavuot | the Shema | the Shmitah Year (Earth's Shabbat) | Shulḥan Orekh | Torah Study | Sukkot | Symbolic Foods | Taanit Esther Readings | Tishah b'Av Readings | Seder Leil Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Yeshayah (Isaiah) | Yom haḲeshet (27 Iyyar) Readings | Yom Kippur | Yom Kippur Readings
1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre | 2019 Israeli legislative election | 2020 coronavirus pandemic | 2020 United States racial reckoning | 59th Presidential Inauguration | Abrahamic | activism | activist | Aleph | Aliyah | American Jewry of the United States | anti-fascist Judaism | anti-Kahanist | Azazel | blessings | Bnei Yisrael and Yishmael | ברכות brakhot | ברית brit | candle lighting | communal | community organizing | Deuteronomy 11:13-21 | Deuteronomy 6:4 | devotional interpretation | Divine Feminine | eco-conscious | ecoḥasid | ecumenical prayers | אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah | English vernacular prayer | entering | ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael | four worlds | global climate change | global warming | green ḥevrah | haggadah supplements | הללו־יה hallelu-yah | חרוסת ḥaroset | הבדלות havdalot | Hebrew translation | hymns of creation | interbreathing | interconnectedness | interpretation as prayer | interpretive translation | Isaiah | Isaiah 57 | Isaiah 58 | Israeli-Jewish settler violence | Israelis and Palestinians | ירושלם Jerusalem | Jewish Renewal | קדיש דרבנן Ḳaddish D'Rabanan | קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish | כוונות kavvanot | kindling | ל״ג בעומר lag baomer | liberation | Maggidut | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | Memorial prayers | Midrashic interpretation | Miriam | MLK | משיח Moshiaḥ | neo-lurianic | North America | Northampton | Numbers 15:37-41 | paraliturgical elohai neshamah | Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish | paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai | paraliturgical shema | participatory | peace | פסוקי דזמרה pesuqei dezimrah | Philadelphia | Pnai Ohr | Pnai Or | Prayers as poems | prophetic revelation | Psalms 148 | Rainbow Day | recipes | reconstructing Judaism | Nusḥaot l'Yahadut Mitkhadeshet | Renewal | RRC | סגולות segulot | September 2020 Western United States wildfires | שבת נחמו Shabbat Naḥamu | פרשת נח Parashat Noaḥ | שמע shemaŋ | שירת הים Shirat haYam | social justice | State v. Chauvin | symbolic foods | talmud torah | תחינות teḥinot | Temple Mount | United States | והיה אם שמע v'haya im shemo'a | water protectors | Yah Bishvat | זמירות zemirot | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
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ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | Rebirthing the Tree(s) of Life: Four Teachings for the Four Worlds of Tu BiShvat/Yah BiShvat by Arthur Waskow
Contributed on: 14 Jan 2013 by Arthur Waskow | the Shalom Center | ❧
The four teachings above are connected with the Four Worlds that the kabbalists saw as the architecture of the universe. When the Kabbalistic community of Tz’fat created the Seder for Tu BiShvat/ Yah BiShvat, they unfolded these Four Worlds in four cups of wine and four sorts of fruit and nuts (one sort so ethereal it was invisible and untouchable). This year, the full moon of Shvat will fall on Shabbat Shira itself, January 24-25. . . .
