(I visited one of the signatories below, on my recent trip to Israel for my cousin's wedding [They already have a baby!]) - Ben
To the Jewish People, to all Communities of Spirit,
and to the World:
A Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis
We come as Jews and rabbis with great respect for what scientists teach us – for as we understand their teaching, it is about the unfolding mystery of God’s Presence in the unfolding universe, and especially in the history and future of our planet. Although we accept scientific accounts of earth’s history, we continue to see it as God’s creation, and we celebrate the presence of the divine hand in every earthly creature.
Yet in our generation, this wonder and this beauty have been desecrated -- not in one land alone but ‘round all the Earth. So in this crisis, even as we join all Earth in celebrating the Breath of Life that interweaves us all -- –
-- You sea-monsters and all deeps, Hallelu-Yah.
Fire, hail, snow, and steam, Hallelu-Yah.
Stormy wind to do God's word, Hallelu-Yah.
Mountains high and tiny hills, Hallelu-Yah (Psalm 148)
We know all Earth needs not only the joyful human voice but also the healing human hand.
We are especially moved when the deepest, most ancient insights of Torah about healing the relationships of Earth and human earthlings, adamah and adam, are echoed in the findings of modern science.
The texts of Torah that perhaps most directly address our present crisis ar Leviticus 25-26 and Deuteronomy 15. They call for one year of every seven to be Shabbat Shabbaton – a Sabbatical Year – and Shmittah – a Year of restful Release for the Earth and its workers from being made to work, and of Release for debtors from their debts.
In Leviticus 26, the Torah warns us that if we refuse to let the Earth rest, it will “rest” anyway, despite us and upon us – through drought and famine and exile that turn an entire people into refugees.
This ancient warning heard by one indigenous people in one slender land has now become a crisis of our planet as a whole and of the entire human species. Human behavior that overworks the Earth – especially the overburning of fossil fuels --- crests in a systemic planetary response that endangers human communities and many other life-forms as well.
Already we see unprecedented floods, droughts, ice-melts, snowstorms, heat waves, typhoons,
sea-level rises, and the expansion of disease-bearing insects from “tropical” zones into what used to be “temperate” regions. Leviticus 26 embodied. Scientific projections of the future make clear that even worse will happen if we continue with carbon-burning business as usual.
As Jews, we ask the question whether the sources of traditional Jewish wisdom can offer guidance to our political efforts to prevent disaster and heal our relationship with the Earth. Our first and most basic wisdom is expressed in the Sh’ma and is underlined in the teaching that through Shekhinah the Divine presence dwells within as well as beyond the world. The Unity of all means not only that all life is interwoven, but also that an aspect of God’s Self partakes in the interwovenness.
We acknowledge that for centuries, the attention of our people – driven into exile not only from our original land but made refugees from most lands thereafter so that they were bereft of physical or political connection and without any specific land – has turned away from this sense of interconnection of adam and adamah, toward the repair of social injustice. Because of this history, we were so much pre-occupied with our own survival that we could not turn attention to the deeper crisis of which our tradition had always been aware.
But justice and earthiness cannot be disentangled. This is taught by our ancient texts – teaching that every seventh year be a Year of Release, Shmittah, Shabbat Shabbaton, in which there would be not only one year’s release of Earth from overwork, but also one year’s sharing by all in society of the Earth’s freely growing abundance, and one year’s release of debtors from their debts.
Indeed, we are especially aware that this very year is, according to the ancient count, the Shmita Year.
The unity of justice and Earth-healing is also taught by our experience today: The worsening inequality of wealth, income, and political power has two direct impacts on the climate crisis. On the one hand, great Carbon Corporations not only make their enormous profits from wounding the Earth, but then use these profits to purchase elections and to fund fake science to prevent the public from acting to heal the wounds. On the other hand, the poor in America and around the globe are the first and the worst to suffer from the typhoons, floods, droughts, and diseases brought on by climate chaos.
So we call for a new sense of eco-social justice – a tikkun olam that includes tikkun tevel, the healing of our planet. We urge those who have been focusing on social justice to address the climate crisis, and those who have been focusing on the climate crisis to address social justice.
Though as rabbis we are drawing on the specific practices by which our Torah makes eco-social justice possible, we recognize that in all cultures and all spiritual traditions there are teachings about the need for setting time and space aside for celebration, restfulness, reflection.
Yet in modern history, we realize that for about 200 years, the most powerful institutions and cultures of the human species have refused to let the Earth or human earthlings have time or space for rest. By overburning carbon dioxide and methane into our planet's air, we have disturbed the sacred balance in which we breathe in what the trees breathe out, and the trees breathe in what we breathe out. The upshot: global scorching, climate crisis.
The crisis is worsened by the spread of extreme extraction of fossil fuels that not only heats the planet as a whole but damages the regions directly affected.
§ Fracking shale rock for oil and “unnatural gas” poisons regional water supplies and induces the shipment of volatile explosive “bomb trains” around the country.
§ Coal burning not only imposes asthma on coal-plant neighborhoods – often the poorest and Blackest – but destroys the lovely mountains of West Virginia.
§ Extracting and pipe-lining Tar Sands threatens Native First nation communities in Canada and the USA, and endangers farmers and cowboys through whose lands the KXL Pipeline is intended to traverse..
§ Drilling for oil deep into the Gulf and the Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound off the Pacific have already brought death to workers and to sea life and financial disasters upon nearby communities. Proposed oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic threaten worse.
All of this is overworking Earth -- precisely what our Torah teaches we must not do. So now we must let our planet rest from overwork. For Biblical Israel, this was a central question in our relationship to the Holy One. And for us and for our children and their children, this is once again the central question of our lives and of our God. HOW? -- is the question we must answer.
So here we turn from inherited wisdom to action in our present and our future. One way of addressing our own responsibility would be for households, congregations, denominations, federations, political action --- to Move Our Money from spending that helps these modern pharaohs burn our planet to spending that helps to heal it. For example, these actions might be both practical and effective:
§ Purchasing wind-born rather than coal-fired electricity to light our homes and synagogues and community centers;
§ Organizing our great Federations to offer grants and loans to every Jewish organization in their regions to solarize their buildings;
§ Shifting our bank accounts from banks that invest in deadly carbon-burning to community banks and credit unions that invest in local neighborhoods, especially those of poor, Black, and Hispanic communities;
§ Moving our endowment funds from supporting deadly Carbon to supporting stable, profitable, life-giving enterprises;
§ Insisting that our tax money go no longer to subsidizing enormously profitable Big Oil but instead to subsidizing the swift deployment of renewable energy -- as quickly in this emergency as our government moved in the emergency of the early 1940s to shift from manufacturing cars to making tanks.
§ Convincing our legislators to institute a system of carbon fees and public dividends that rewards our society for moving beyond the Carbon economy.
These examples are simply that, and in the days and years to come, we may think of other approaches to accomplish these ecological ends.
America is one of the most intense contributors to the climate crisis, and must therefore take special responsibility to act. Though we in America are already vulnerable to climate chaos, other countries are even more so –-- and Jewish caring must take that truth seriously. Israeli scientists, for example, report that if the world keeps doing carbon business as usual, the Negev desert will come to swallow up half the state of Israel, and sea-level rises will put much of Tel Aviv under water.
Israel itself is too small to calm the wide world’s worsening heat. Israel’s innovative ingenuity for solar and wind power could help much of the world, but it will take American and other funding to help poor nations use the new-tech renewable energy created by Israeli and American innovators.
We believe that there is both danger and hope in American society today, a danger and a hope that the American Jewish community, in concert with our sisters and brothers in other communities of Spirit, must address. The danger is that America is the largest contributor to the scorching of our planet. The hope is that over and over in our history, when our country faced the need for profound change, it has been our communities of moral commitment, religious covenant, and spiritual search that have arisen to meet the need. So it was fifty years ago during the Civil Rights movement, and so it must be today.
As we live through this Shmittah Year, we are especially aware that Torah calls for Hak’heyl -- assembling the whole community of the People Israel during the Sukkot after the Shmittah year, to hear and recommit ourselves to the Torah’s central teachings.
So we encourage Jews in all our communities to gather on the Sunday of Sukkot this year, October 4, 2015, to explore together our responsibilities toward the Earth and all humankind, in this generation.
Our ancient earthy wisdom taught that social justice, sustainable abundance, a healthy Earth, and spiritual fulfillment are inseparable. Today we must hear that teaching in a world-wide context, drawing upon our unaccustomed ability to help shape public policy in a great nation. We call upon the Jewish people to meet God’s challenge once again.
Signed:
Rabbi Jonathan Aaron Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills Beverly Hills CA
Rabbi Susan Abramson Temple Shalom Emeth Burlington MA
Rabbi Ruth Adar Lehrhaus Judaica San Leandro CA
Rabbi Avruhm Addison Cong Melrose B'nai Israel Emanu El Philadelphia PA
Rabbi David Adelson East End Temple New York NY
Rabbi Alison Adler Temple B'nai Abraham Beverly MA
Rabbi Moshe Adler Beth El - The Heights Synagogue University Heights OH
Rabbi Rachel Adler Hebrew Union College Los Angeles CA
Rabbi Ron Aigen Congregation Dorshei Emet, Montreal Montreal Canada
Rabbi Aaron Alexander IKAR Los Angeles CA
Rabbi Mona Alfi Congregation B'nai Israel Sacramento CA
Rabbi Katy Allen Ma'yan Tikvah - A Wellspring of Hop Wayland MA
Rabbi Adam Allenberg Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Santa Monica CA
Rabbi Doug Alpert Congregation Kol Ami-Kansas City Kansas City MO
Rabbi Neil Amswych Temple Beth Shalom Santa Fe NM
Rabbi Batsheva Appel Temple Emanu-El Tucson AZ
Rabbi Aryeh Azriel Temple Israel Omaha NE
Rabbi Elan Babchuck Temple Emanu-El Providence RI
Rabbi Richard Backer Ohalah Newton MA
Rabbi Chava Bahle Or Tzafon Suttons Bay MI
Rabbi Ethan Bair Temple Sinai Reno NV
Rabbi Benjamin Barnett Beit Am Jewish Community Corvallis OR
Rabbi Lewis M Barth Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion Encino CA
Rabbi Geoff Basik Kol HaLev Baltimore MD
Rabbi Sarah Bassin Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills Beverly Hills CA
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Rabbi Sarah Rubin Reconstructionist Seattle WA
Rabbi Jared Saks Congregation Bet Ha'am Portland ME
Rabbi Rick Schechter Temple Sinai of Glendale Glendale CA
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation; COEJL Washington DC
Rabbi Howie Schneider Chadeish Yameinu Aptos CA
Rabbi Randy Schoch Cong. Sha'are Shalom (Reform) Oxon Hill, MD 20745 MD
Rabbi Gary Schoenberg Gesher—A Bridge Home Portland OR
Rabbi Avi Schulman Temple Beth Torah Fremont CA
Rabbi Fred Schwalb Hebrew Congregation of Somers, NY Croton On Hudson NY
Rabbi Arthur Schwartz Retired Huntington NY
Rabbi Jeremy Schwartz Temple Bnai Israel Willimantic CT
Rabbi Sid Schwarz Clal: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Rockville MD
Rabbi Allen Secher Retired Whitefish MT
Rabbi Arthur Segal Jewish Spiritual Renewal of the Lowcountry Hilton Head SC
Rabbi David Mevorach Seidenberg neohasid.org Northampton MA
Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller UCLA Hillel Los Angeles CA
Rabbi Elyse Seidner-Joseph Makom Kadosh West Chester PA
Rabbi Erica Sekuler Lebovitz Conservative Livingston NJ
Rabbi Gerald Serotta Shirat HaNefesh Chevy Chase MD
Rabbi Isaac Serotta Lakeside Congregation Highland Park IL
Rabbi Drorah Setel Kehillah Buffalo NY
Rabbi Mark Shapiro Sinai Temple Longmeadow MA
Rabbi Rick Shapiro Congregation Beth Torah Overland Park KS
Rabbi Bonnie Sharfman Congregation Kehillah Scottsdale AZ
Rabbi Randy Sheinberg Temple Tikvah New Hyde Park NY
Rabbi Aaron Sherman Beth Israel Congregation, Florence, SC Charleston SC
Rabbi David Shneyer Kehila Chadasha and Am Kolel Renewal Community Rockville MD
Rabbi Linda Shriner-Cahn Congregation Tehillah Bronx NY
Rabbi Alexandria Shuval-Weiner (as of July 1) Temple Beth Tikvah (as of July 1) Roswell GA
Rabbi Judith Siegal Temple Judea Coral Gables FL
Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel B'nai Or of Boston Needham MA
Rabbi Ariana Silverman Central Conference of American Rabbis Detroit MI
Rabbi Daniel Silverstein n/a Bronx NY
Rabbi Suzanne Singer Riverside Temple Beth El Riverside CA
Rabbi Jonathan Slater Institute for Jewish Spirituality Hastings on Hudson NY
Rabbi Rachel Smookler Temple Beth David Rochester NY
Rabbi Mark Sobel Temple Beth Emet West Hills CA
Rabbi Ruth Sohn HUC-JIR, Yedidya Center for Jewish Spiritual Direction Los Angeles CA
Rabbi Scott Sokol Temple Emanuel of Marlborough Marlborough MA
Rabbi Eric Solomon Beth Meyer Synagogue Raleigh NC
Rabbi Marc Soloway Congregation Bonai Shalom Boulder CO
Rabbi Robin Sparr Temple Emanuel Natick MA
Rabbi Wendy Spears Congregation Or Ami / RabbiWendy.com Los Angeles CA
Rabbi Toba Spitzer Congregation Dorshei Tzedek Waltham MA
Rabbi ed Stafman OHALAH President Bozeman MT
Rabbi Mark Staitman Retired Pittsburgh PA
Rabbi Cy Stanway 44 Lambert Johnson Drive Ocean NJ
Rabbi Daniel Stein Bnai Abraham Synagogue Easton PA
Rabbi Howard Stein Temple Hadar Israel Pittsburgh PA
Rabbi Margot Stein RRC Bala Cynwyd PA
Rabbi Naomi Steinberg Temple Beth El Carlotta CA
Rabbi Gershon Steinberg-Caudill Ohr Shekinah Richmond CA
Rabbi Ron Stern Stephen Wise Temple Los Angeles CA
Rabbi Kaya Stern-Kaufman Aleph Housatonic MA
Rabbi Debbie Stiel Temple Beth Shlom Topeka KS
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld Society for the Advancement of Judaism NY NY
Rabbi Mark Strauss-Cohn Temple Emanuel of Winston-Salem, NC Winston-Salem NC
Rabbi Joshua Strom Temple Shaaray Tefila New York NY
Rabbi Alana Suskin Americans for Peace Now Washington DC
Rabbi Brooks Susman Congregation Kol Am of Freehold Freehold NJ
Rabbi Louis Sutker Or Shalom Vancouver Canada
Rabbi Daniel Swartz Interfaith Power & Light
Rabbi Larry Tabick Shir Hayim/Hampstead Reform Jewish Community London United Kingdom
Rabbi Susan Talve Central Reform Congregation, St. Louis St. Louis MO
Rabbi Elliott Tepperman Bnai Keshet Montclair NJ
Rabbi David Teutsch Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Philadelphia PA
Rabbi Barbara Shulamit Thiede Temple Or Olam Concord NC
Rabbi Karen Thomashow Isaac M. Wise Temple Cincinnati OH
Rabbi Debbi Till Reform Rochester NY
Rabbi Rachel Timoner Leo Baeck Temple Los Angeles CA
Rabbi Daniel Treiser Temple B'nai Israel Clearwater FL
Rabbi Lawrence Troster Shomrei Breishit Teaneck NJ
Rabbi Moshe Waldoks independent congregation Temple Beth Zion Newton MA
Rabbi Brian Walt Tikkun v'Or, Ithaca, New York West Tisbury MA
Rabbi Susan Warshaw Temple Bat Yam Alexandria VA
Rabbi Arthur Waskow The Shalom Center Philadelphia PA
Rabbi Julia Watts Belser n/a Arlington VA
Rabbi Seth Wax Congregation Mount Sinai New York NY
Rabbi Deborah Waxman Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, President Wyncote PA
Rabbi Joshua Waxman Or Hadash: A Reconstructionist Congregatioh Fort Washington PA
Rabbi Donald Weber Temple Rodeph Torah Morganville NJ
Rabbi Ezra Weinberg YM&YWHA of Washington Heights New York NY
Rabbi Sheila Weinberg Institute for Jewish Spirituality Philadelphia PA
Rabbi Cheryl Weiner Community Rabbi/Chaplain Hollywood FL
Rabbi Daniel Weinr Temple De Hirsch Sinai Seattle WA
Rabbi Samuel Weintraub Kane Street Syngogue Brooklyn NY
Rabbi Stephen Weisman Temple Solel Bowie MD
Rabbi Cory Weiss Temple Har Zion Thornhill Canada
Rabbi Judy Weiss Citizens' Climate Lobby (volunteer) Brookline MA
Rabbi Max Weiss Oak Park Temple B'nai Abraham Zion Oak Park IL
Rabbi Rachel Weiss Congregation Beit Simchat Torah BROOKLYN NY
Rabbi Shifra Weiss-Penzias Temple Beth El Santa Cruz CA
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg New North London Synagogue London United Kingdom
Rabbi Joseph Wolf Havurah Shalom, Portland, Oregon Portland OR
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Uri L'Tzedek, Orthodox Social Justice Scottsdale AZ
Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers Movement for Reform Judaism UK BOREHAMWOOD United Kingdom
Rabbi Sara Zacharia post-denominational Brooklyn NY
Rabbi Joel Zaiman rabbi emeritus Chizuk Amuno, Baltimore Baltimore MD
Rabbi David Zaslow Havurah Shir Hadash, Jewish Renewal Ashland OR
Rabbi Michael Zedek Emanuel Congregation Chicago IL
Rabbi Adam Zeff Germantown Jewish Centre Philadelphia PA
Rabbi Tali Zelkowicz Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Los Angeles CA
Rabbi Matthew Zerwekh Temple B'nai Israel, Kalamazoo MI Parchment MI
Rabbi Shawn & Simcha Zevit Mishkan Shalom Philadelphia PA
Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman Temple Israel Minneapolis MN
Rabbi Rain Zohav Interfaith Family Project of Washington, DC Rockville MD
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