I'm not a person who grows things. I don't have the green thumbs of my daughter who checks her garden in the morning before school, and grows her own pumpkins, tomatoes and grapes.
I'm the kind of person who likes to turn the pumpkins into fritters, the tomatoes into tasty salads and the grapes into wine (until I discovered how much equipment was actually involved)
We need variety in this world- the people who like to cook and the people who like to grow all have jobs to do. We need a variety of beliefs, a variety of skills and a variety of communities.
Destroying variety is going in an anti-life direction.
TUESDAY -
God said, “Let the water below the sky be gathered into one area, that the dry land may appear.”
And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering of waters He called Seas. And
God saw that this was good. And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: seed-bearing plants,
fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so. The earth
brought forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing
fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that this was good. And there was evening and there was
morning, a third day. (Gen. 1:9–13)
As part of the Ma'amadot project of Rabbi Arthur Green, today I want to stand with all communities that recognize the need to protect the biodiversity of our planet , make this bread for my family and be mindful of the joy in diversity.
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