Emily and Hannah present Jewish Environmental Ethics

Slideshow Transcript

1. Slide 1: Jewish Environmental Ethics “Shalome my friends”
2. Slide 2:Jewish Environmental Ethics? Tell me more Moses.. Well my followers, it links the Jewish tradition of ethical analysis to a significant contemporary problem. The Jewish tradition makes a distinctive and important contribution to our understanding of contemporary environmental ethics and the complex relationship of man to nature. Understand?
3. Slide 3: Balance, you say?  • Yes, I do say balance. Judaism imposes numerous restrictions on how, when and to what extent people can use the natural environment. “When you encounter the nest of a bird before you…with the mother crouching upon the fledging or upon the eggs, you are not to take away the mother along with the children” • Therefore a principal belief in Judaism is balance.