This Pardes Life Season 3: Episode 7 Special for Tu B’Shvat with Aviva Lauer

Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for a special episode of This Pardes Life for Tu B'Shvat with Aviva Lauer, a master educator and Director of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. In this podcast, they discuss cultivating a Jewish approach to environmentalism. Aviva traces the development of the significance of Tu B'Shvat from Mishnaic times to today, and shares how this process of creative development over time and changing circumstances can be a blueprint for how contemporary Jews can feel both rooted in tradition and discover new, personally relevant lessons in Jewish practice. For further reading, see Aviva's article on The Many (Authentic) Facelifts of Tu B’Shvat. This Pardes Life sees Pardes teacher Rabbi Zvi Hirshfield gets up close and personal with fellow teachers and alumni talking about life, texts and Pardes. See for other episodes in this series.

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This Pardes Life Season 3: Episode 7 Special for Tu B’Shvat with Aviva Lauer is an episode from This Pardes Life by Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

This episode is 32:16 long.

This episode was published on Jan 29, 2018.

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