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Finding God Outdoors
Spirituality and Nature
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The natural world is our primary source of sensory simulation and nature tends to cultivate our senses. And through our senses, we gain a better sense of ourselves.
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The more cluttered our minds, the more constricted our hearts, the less space there is inside for God to inhabit.
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Discovering God
The real meaning of litany is prayer. And every place is named-every place is remembered; every place is inhabited by God. Every place that we make our home is holy ground. It’s not just the Bible proper that cultivates an awareness of a universal God in nature.
Cooped up in the concrete box of a classroom-under humanity’s dominion, kids don’t stand much of a chance of finding God. But outdoors, feet touching the earth, bodies immersed in the wind, Ruach Elohim, there’s a real likelihood they and we might remember our Creator.
Most significantly the whole band of wandering Israelites found God in nature; their identity was forged outdoors on the land.
The God of the cosmos that many people find in nature is the Jewish God.But the message is not being commented effectively or whole-heartedly. From the beginning of our history, our ancestors encountered God in natural settings at specified places
Jews do believe in God but they do not tend to find him in a synagogue or Jewish texts. Rather they tend to find God in private or universal settings and most of them associate God with a force in nature.
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Taking Judaism Outdoors
It is imperative that we as Jews find ways to engage in environmental repair and not get sucked into the despair or indifference. It is our children who must bear the burden of the consequences of the environmental crisis
Fostered by our lack of appreciation for the natural world and our wild and unconstrained overuse of it, global climate change is threatening to alter the face of life on earth.
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we need to take this outdoor education–this farm and wilderness education, this authentic Jewish spiritual education–seriously.
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