Judaism

The Burden of Uniqueness
Finding God in the Garden: Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost
by Rabbi Balfour Brickner
We do not know how long the good life in Eden lasted for Adam and Eve, but we do learn that at one point, something seems to have gone terribly wrong. What brought Eden down? The answer is found in the following text: And the Lord God commanded man

The Partnership
Finding God in the Garden: Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost
by Rabbi Balfour Brickner
One of Judaism's more audacious theological principles is that God and humanity need each other to complete the creative process. It is an empowering thought. Instead of seeing ourselves as yet another life form to be redeemed by some other

Eden: The First Garden
Finding God in the Garden: Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost
by Rabbi Balfour Brickner
How can one write a book on gardening and God without starting in the most obvious place? Eden is the first garden described in any Western religious literature, and if one accepts what is written about it in the Bible, it must have been an incredible