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Finding God in the Garden
Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost
by Balfour Brickner
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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books (April 01 2003)
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Eden: The First Garden
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

The Partnership
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

The Burden of Uniqueness
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


About the Author

Rabbi Balfour BricknerRabbi Balfour Brickner

BALFOUR BRICKNER has been a rabbi for half a century and still he lives to tell the tale. His career began in Washington, DC where he was the founding rabbi of Temple Sinai, a congregation he built and served for a decade. In 1961 he moved to New York City to join the national executive staff of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central organization of Reform Judaism.

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