About Getzel

Getzel is a instructor this fall at the Teva Learning Center, where he teaches 11 year old day school students about the connections between Judaism and the environment. He gets paid to help kids to feel more awe for the world!

I’m not an Israelite farmer living in Biblical times, why hell should I care about shmittah?

By Getzel November 23, 2007

            As I discussed in my last post, there is a new movement afoot aiming to re-understand biblical agricultural laws and find their application for modern day Jews living outside the land of Israel.  Some of these laws like peah … Read More

From Broadway to Beet Grower

By Getzel November 23, 2007

As I walked into the kitchen yesterday, my aunt was chopping beets for dinner. Laying off to the side were a pile of the greens about to be tossed in the garbage. I asked her if she usually uses beet … Read More

Hitbodedut in the forest

By Getzel November 21, 2007

            As a Jewish environmental educator, I get to experiment with many different practices that are foreign to mainstream suburban Judaism.  During Sukkot we had a Simchat Beit Hashove’ah ceremony, which is a crazy Jewish rain dance with fire juggling, … Read More

An Interview with Getzel Davis

By Getzel November 19, 2007

This week on FaithHacker we're excited to welcome guest blogger Getzel Davis.  Getzel is, among other things, an environmental rock star, a former ADAMAH fellow, and pretty much the nicest guy I know.  To start things off I sent him … Read More