Tag: change

How great are Your works, O Lord, Your designs are very deep;

The brute does not know nor does the fool understand this. (Psalm 92)

Whereas the Jewish tradition teaches that “the seal of the Holy Blessed One, is truth.” (BT Yoma 69b) and has long supported a worldview that sees the human study of creation as a path to the better understanding of how God acts in the world as in Maimonides’ assertion that what we would call scientific knowledge is the fulfillment of the commandments to love and fear God (Mishneh Torah, Yesodei Ha-Torah 2:2), and

WHEREAS the Rabbinical Assembly has always based its environmental resolutions on the principles of:

WHEREAS the Rabbinical Assembly was a founding partner of COEJL (Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life) has articulated the Jewish responsibility to address global climate change and work towards an environmentally responsible energy policy on a personal, communal, and national level with 14 resolutions since 1991 on protecting and enhancing the environment and the quality of life for all God’s creatures;