Selichot for the month of Elul

Cover of Eitan Katz's L'Maancha

English Translation:

For thine own sake act, our G-d, and not for ours.

Behold our position, impoverished and empty.

The soul is thine, and the body is thy work:

O have compassion on thy labor.

The Deep Water Initiative works to capture soundscapes in nature. The preservation - through audio recordings - of various habitats, individual species, and wildlife sounds are a form of environmental activism. Soundscapes tell the story of a place, and we aim to share that music with the world.

Park City, UT

Topics Include: Balaam’s reincarnation into a rock, nature as a medium for tikkun, and the open spaces of Levitical Cities.

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The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The role of zealousness in action, ‘green shaming’ as a reflection of our own faults, and social justice

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The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

The Deep Water Initiative works to capture soundscapes in nature. The preservation - through audio recordings - of various habitats, individual species, and wildlife sounds are a form of environmental activism. Soundscapes tell the story of a place, and we aim to share that music with the world.

Black Sand Beach Depoe Bay, OR

The Deep Water Initiative works to capture soundscapes in nature. The preservation - through audio recordings - of various habitats, individual species, and wildlife sounds are a form of environmental activism. Soundscapes tell the story of a place, and we aim to share that music with the world.

Black Sand Beach Depoe Bay, OR

Topics Include: Water in the wilderness, integrating our ecological activism with gratefulness, and reducing the suffering of all living creatures

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The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The autonomy of the earth in the Rebellion of Korach, the earth swallowing the mutineers and their possessions, and the proper integration of material wealth into our lives

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The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: Finding the essence of G-d through nature, fighting against those who cause us to fall, and the analogy between a tzaddik and a tree.

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The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.

Topics Include: The dysfunctionality of global systems revealed during Covid-19, the analogy between mitzvot and renewable energy technologies, the dissatisfaction with manna and the danger of nostalgia

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The Torah for the Earth Podcast and Audio Essays are Copyrighted to Charles Scott Forbes Jr, 2019.