Notes from a Jewish Thoreau

Musings, insights, stories and nature observations from a Hasidic Jew living in the Great North Woods.
(And respectfully seeking to help my fellow Jews recover from "Nature Deficit Disorder.")

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

You can't fast forward a sunset ~ and other TIME-ly thoughts

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A while back I was teaching a circle dance to some children and told them to go clockwise. They looked at me blankly and had no idea wha...

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

To collect or not to collect -- is that really the question?

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A while back, I had a conversation with a vegan who thought it was wrong for children to catch fireflies in jars. Her reasoning was, that t...

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Nature Deficit Disorder and Jews

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I just finished reading a book called Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv. “Nature d...

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Yonassan Gershom: I follow the teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, but am not affiliated with any particular group, having learned the Breslov way from his books and by meditation in the forest as he taught. I live in northern Minnesota with my wife Caryl, 1 goose, 8 cats, a flock of chickens and a bunch of wildlife. No, there is no synagogue here. We hate the city and few Jews live in the country anymore. But no problem, God is everywhere!

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