September 13, 2019 ” When you harvest, the gleanings shall be for the stranger, the widow and the orphan” Ki Teitzei  24:19

We who are the fortunate inheritors of fossil fuel prosperity ought to show compassion to the victims of climate change, so many of whom are casualties of the hurricanes that have ravaged our Caribbean neighbors. We have reaped AND we have gleaned for so many years with little care for how these places are impacted. We are so generous to our own, to our synagogues, Federations, colleges, etc. We’re commanded also to remember the stranger. Today, in the Bahamas where 70,000 are homeless and destruction reigns, the need for our help is profound – just the gleanings, of course. But, please: At least the gleanings. And let us – please – not continue to ignore the threat of global warming: “You shall not contaminate your Land” 21:23