look under "kibbutz"

A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel, which may or may not include
farming. Today, it may be collective or privatized. It has nothing whatever to
do with gardening per se.

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

On 01 Mar 2003 21:26:35 GMT, (Iris Cohen) wrote:

look under "kibbutz"

A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel, which may or may not include
farming. Today, it may be collective or privatized. It has nothing whatever to
do with gardening per se.

I doubt if there's anything like "Jewish Gardening" as such, though
there are numerous injunctions in Torah and Talmud about respecting
the environment, planting trees, giving the earth a rest every seven
years, and other positive attitudes toward Nature.

This Subject reminded me of a beautiful book I got as a gift several
birthdays ago. I had put it on the shelf and forgotten it till this
Subject felicitously caused me to take it down. Though secular, I
have been studying the Hebrew Bible these last few years through
disparate sources, and finding it an endless fascination. This
beautiful illustrated book, scholarly but accessible, is going to be a
joy, so thanks for guiding me back to it.

Title: "Nature & Man in the Bible: Chapters in Biblical Ecology"
by Yehuda Feliks. ISBN 0 900689 19 6.

The dust jacket lists a number of questions, for example "What plants
grow on the Western Wall" and "Why was the burning bush not consumed".

"The answers to these and to many other fascinating questions are
to be found in the pages of this book, in which Professor Feliks has
drawn on his extensive knowledge of Bible, Talmud (commentaries)
and Biology. He has been able to identify many of the plants and
animals mentioned in the Bible, where no fewer than 250 species are
recorded.

"The authors avowed purpose in this book has been to attract the
student of the Bible to the nature of the land, and the lover of
Nature to the Bible."







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