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How to Use This Material:
These essays and text studies may be used to develop educational programs, text studies, and sermons. They also may be excerpted for use in services and rituals. Finally, they should serve as a source of inspiration for environmental action for Tu B'Shvat and throughout the year.

Essays

Refresh your knowledge or explore for the first time essays by leading clergy and scholars regarding our relationship to nature and our Jewish environmental values.

• Trees, Shabbat, and Israel's Ecology (5767/2007)
• I and Thou: A Tree
• Tree of Life
• Trees are Us
• Cosmic Consciousness, Man and the Worm: Ecology and Spirituality in Jewish Tradition
• Tu B'Shvat and Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Reflections on the environment and justice
• It’s time to employ Judaism to speak for the world’s trees
• Jews, Jewish Texts, and Nature: A Brief History
• Jewish Environmental Values
• The Spiritual Ecology of Kashrut
• If a Tree Falls in the Forest on Tu B'Shvat
• Tu B'Shvat Thoughts: Trees, Shrubs, Bush, and Breaking the Oil Addiction
• Celebrating the Tu B’shvat of the Kabbalists

Text Study

• Text on Trees, Shabbat, and Israel's Ecology (5767/2007)
• Kabbalah and Midrash on trees and the Tree of Life
• Bal Tashchit
• Mayim Chayyim
• Children of Israel
• Cosmology: texts on the Divine Purpose in Creation