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Human beings were placed on our earth according to the Torah "to work and exploit its riches and yet to guard and protect that world." That is the clear instruction given by the Almighty to Adam in the Garden of Eden. If humans are able to harmoniously blend the two - the work and the guarding - then this planet is and will remain a veritable paradise. However if humans lose their sense of proportion and balance regarding these two goals and veer towards working and exploiting too much or towards an overzealous guarding of it then neither of these goals can be achieved for they depend upon a harmonious and balanced relationship one to the other. Human society seems to veer from plundering its habitat to overprotecting it at tremendous cost to human comfort and society’s economic wherewithal. The watchword of our day is "green" - green energy, green housing, a green economy. This is a worthwhile goal but it cannot be the only worthwhile goal on the human agenda. After the rapacious treatment of the earth’s resources over the past centuries, the reaction of "green" has set in with a vengeance. Eventually we humans will have to find the balance between working and guarding that the Lord bade us to do so at the beginning of the story of humankind. Common sense, political wisdom and a balanced view of life and its problems can all help fulfill God’s blessings to Adam and Chava and their descendants to truly inherit this earth and live in harmony with it.
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Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part II
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
Parashat Hashavua Happiness for the Right Reasons
[With painful longing, we share these divrei Torah from our co-Rosh Kollel for close to 40 years, Harav Moshe Ehrenreich zt”l.]
