Year 7

Caring for the Environment

In this lesson, we will learn some Jewish ideas about caring for the environment.

Year 7

Caring for the Environment

In this lesson, we will learn some Jewish ideas about caring for the environment.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Environmental problems.
  2. Beliefs regarding stewardship.

Equipment

You will need two different coloured pens: black or blue and another coloured pen, such as green or red.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What Jewish holiday is known as the Day of Atonement?
Passover
Rosh Hashana
Correct answer: Yom Kippur
Q2.
What is blown on Rosh Hashana to remind the Jewish people to repent or think about how they have been acting?
Shabbat
Shalom
Correct answer: Shofar
Trumpet
Q3.
Which food is eaten on Passover?
Apples and honey
Challah
Correct answer: Matzah
Q4.
The Jewish calendar is:
Correct answer: A lunar calendar
A solar calendar
There is a different Jewish calendar?
Q5.
What is Tashlich?
A food eaten on Passover to represent the bricks that were built in Egypt
Correct answer: A ritual done on Rosh Hashana where 'one throws away' their sins into water
A special prayer said on Yom Kippur

5 Questions

Q1.
True or false: There is one specific Jewish text that talks about how to care for the environment.
Correct answer: False
True
Q2.
True or False: Many Jewish people believe that there is a Jewish commandment to not be wasteful.
False
Correct answer: True
Q3.
Which is NOT a way that some Jewish people connect Jewish practice to caring for the environment?
Believe that one has the obligation in Tikkun Olam to fix the world
Correct answer: Eat only fast food
Make a blessing on foods that they eat
Think about the connection between the Jewish holidays and the harvest seasons
Q4.
'Tikkun Olam' means:
To care for the world
To destroy the world
Correct answer: To fix the world
Q5.
In Genesis, after God places Adam in Gan Eden, God commands Adam
'To live in it and watch over it'
'To protect it and plant it'
Correct answer: 'To work it and guard it'