How do Jews look after the environment?

Answer 1

Jews are commanded by the Torah not to waste. Wasting includes the dictum: "Even if you don't need something, if another person could use it you may not destroy it." Jews are also commanded not to damage other people's property, which would include their fresh air, Natural Resources and environment. Jews are also commanded to look after their health - a commandment that overrides nearly all others; polluting the environment would go against this. Jews also don't drive motorized vehicles on Saturdays or Holidays.

Answer 2

• Environmental Ethics: Judaism has a heightened sensitivity to the world around us, reflected in the Torah and by the Rabbis and their later rulings. Judaism created specific laws in this area that predated modern laws by thousands of years. For example, the Talmud rules that there must remain distance between industrial and rural areas to create a healthy ecological balance. Garbage must not pollute public property. Maimonides states that causing air pollution through smoke, dust, and noxious smells is not permitted even if no one protests. Water must not cause damage or pollution. Noise must not create a nuisance to the human environment.

• The laws of sh'mittah, by which the land must lie fallow every seventh year (Leviticus ch.25), are to preserve the earth and maintain its fertility. These laws are observed in Israel to this day, by religious farmers.

Answer 2

• Environmental Ethics: Judaism has a heightened sensitivity to the world around us, reflected in the Torah and by the Rabbis and their later rulings. Judaism created specific laws in this area that predated modern laws by thousands of years. For example, the Talmud rules that there must remain distance between industrial and rural areas to create a healthy ecological balance. Garbage must not pollute public property. Maimonides states that causing air pollution through smoke, dust, and noxious smells is not permitted even if no one protests. Water must not cause damage or pollution. Noise must not create a nuisance to the human environment.

• The laws of sh'mittah, by which the land must lie fallow every seventh year (Leviticus ch.25), are to preserve the earth and maintain its fertility. These laws are observed in Israel to this day, by religious farmers.

Answer 3

They look after the world by protecting it from the bad things, they do this because their religion believes that the earth is a gift and we must protect it.

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