Wilderness Torah Teachings
Jonah’s Vision Quest – Teshuva at Yom Kippur
Zelig Golden | 8th of Tishrei 5771 | September 16, 2010| Shana Tova Umetukah ~ Wishing you a good and sweet new year! One week ago, the New Moon of Tishrei shepherded in Rosh Hashana, [...]
Earth Based Judaism – Reclaiming Our Roots, Reconnecting to Nature
Earth Based Judaism – Reclaiming Our Roots, Reconnecting to Nature Zelig Golden | July 9, 2010 Humanity’s current alienation from nature is unprecedented. As Wendell Berry explained in his seminal 1977 work The Unsettling of [...]
Journey to Our Land, Journey to Ourselves: Parsha Mase’ei
Zelig Golden | 25 Tamuz 5769 | July 17, 2009 In this week’s parsha, Mase’ei or “Journeys,” we recount the forty-two stages of our epic journey through the wilderness from the narrows of Egypt to [...]
Send for Yourself and Transcend your Fears: Parsha Shelach-Lekha
Zelig Golden | 11 Sivan 5769 | June 3, 2009 In the parsha for this week, we confront the core obstacle of becoming who we are: fear. After a long journey, Moses and the recently [...]
Rewriting our Food Story for Today: Parsha Miketz
Zelig Golden | | 4 Tevet 5769 | December 31, 2008 Fourteen years ago I found myself in Costa Rica studying sustainable development with the School for Field studies. My time with Don Amadeo Acosta, [...]
Balancing Heaven and Earth: Parsha Va-Yetse
Zelig Golden | 8 Kislev 5769 | December 5, 2008 In Parsha Va-Yetse, Jacob goes out into the world in a way that neither Avram nor Yitzakh could. He is the first person we see [...]
Out of the Book, Onto the Land
Zelig Golden | 12 Elul 5768 | September 12, 2008 We were not always the people of the book. Our Hebrew ancestors were the people of the land. They lived by the cycles of the [...]
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