Archive 2023
Program 2023Day 1
30 Jul 2023
Repentance – multiple understandings
Opening Lunch – INTRODUCTIONS ROUND 1
Our connections to place – personal reflections
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Peta Jones Pellach
Day 2
31 Jul 2023
Rituals and Practices of Personal Repentance
11:30
VISIT TO rav kook house
Teaching and discussion: What are Rav Kook’s teachings that are relevant to our theme of “climate repentance”?
Itschak Marmorstein
14:15
“Personal Repentance” (part 2 – Zoom)
Teachings from religious scholars
Professor Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
17:30
Day 3
01 Aug 2023
Collective Repentance
9:15 - 9:45
Text Study
Peta Jones Pellach
9:45 - 10:45
“Collective Repentance” (part 1 – Zoom)
Text study and teaching by religious leaders and scholars
Qadi Muhammad Abu Obied
Prof Karma Lekshe Tsomo
10:45 – 12:00
Introduction to Green Pilgrimage
Reflections on the Kotel and Rechov HaNeviim – stroll to Armenian Patriarchate
Naomi Tsur
12:00
“Collective Repentance” (part 2)
Visit to Armenian Patriarchate.
14:30 - 15:00
Text Study
Peta Jones Pellach
15:00 – 16:00
“Collective Repentance” (part 3 – Zoom)
Text study and teaching by religious leaders and scholars
Gurinder Singh Mann
Rav Daniel Kohn
16:00 - 16:30
Text Study
Peta Jones Pellach
16:30 - 17:30
“Collective Repentance” (part 3 – Zoom)
Text study and teaching by religious leaders and scholars
Bishop William Shomali
Professor Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
Day 4
02 Aug 2023
Repentance and “Cosmovision”
9:00 – 10:30
11:00 – 12:00
The Sacred Duty: Climate Change, Repentance and a Spiritual Awakening
Lecture and meditation at Ecce Homo
Sr Jayanti – Brahma Kumaris
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Bibliodrama at Swedish Theological Institute
An interactive methodology which allows us to enter deeply into sacred texts and foundational stories in order to more fully appreciate their wisdom and their relevance to us as individuals and as a collective.
16:00 – 18:00
Hermes Forum for the Interreligious Study of the Spiritual and Mystical Life
“How Does A Mystical Perspective Enhance Repentance And Repentance For The Environment?”
The Hermes Forum
Day 5
03 Aug 2023
Repentance beyond the human realm
9: 15 - 9:45
DISCUSSION AND WRITTEN REFLECTIONS
Elijah Academy
9:45 - 11:15
“Repentance beyond the human realm” (Part 1 – Zoom and in-person)
Religious leaders and scholars in conversation
Bishop William Shomali
Prof Karma Lekshe Tsomo
13:00 - 14:30
“Repentance beyond the human realm” (part 2)
Religious leaders and scholars in conversation
Rav Daniel Kohn
Qadi Muhammad Abu Obied
14:45 – 16:15
“Repentance beyond the human realm” (Part 2 – Zoom)
Religious leaders and scholars in conversation
Gurinder Singh Mann
Professor Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
17:00
Day 6
04 Aug 2023
Shabbat and environment
9:15 - 11:15
Introduction to Shabbat
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
11:30 – 13:30
Day 7
06 Aug 2023
Repentance and Prayers for the environment
Faculty: Meet at Safra Square. Green experience Part 2
Peta Jones Pellach
11:00 - 12:30
Bibliodrama
An interactive methodology which allows us to enter deeply into sacred texts and foundational stories in order to more fully appreciate their wisdom and their relevance to us as individuals and as a collective.
13:30 – 15:30
PRAYERS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Analysis and composition
16:00
Preparing for Praying Together in Jerusalem
(PTIJ begins at 18:00)
Day 8
07 Aug 2023
Principles of Climate Repentance – (Principles 1-3)
9:15 – 17:30
Analysing and understanding the Principles of Climate Repentance
Similarities and differences between traditions. Exercise led by members of the Elijah Academy and the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders.
Day 9
08 Aug 2023
Principles of Climate Repentance (Principles 4-10)
9:15 - 15:30
Analysing and understanding the Principles of Climate Repentance
Similarities and differences between traditions. Exercise led by members of the Elijah Academy and the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders.
16:00 - 19:00
Green experience 3
Environmentalism in action in Jerusalem: visit to Ein Karem
19:00
Day 10
09 Aug 2023
Recommendations for Activism – Climate Repentance in action
9:15 – 15:00
15:00
Concluding Lecture
Dr Mirele Goldsmith on "From Moses to Greta - Being an Effective Change-Maker"
Dr Mirele Goldsmith