Rabbi Yonatan Neril: How spirituality can help us solve the climate crisis

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Yonatan Neril, founder of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development in Jerusalem, highlights the need for a spiritual transformation to address the intensifying climate crisis caused by materialism and a lack of compassion for the natural world. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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