People and planet. That’s what Adamah is all about. This beautiful Hebrew word – Adamah – holding both adam and adamah. People and planet. Inextricably linked.

And prayer is supposed to be about radical amazement, right? To pray is to be radically amazed, says Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.

I can find radical amazement in nature. It’s not so hard. A perfect spider web. An ant that moves with purpose, carrying 50 times its own weight. Sea glass.

I get the “planet” part of people and planet. But finding radical amazement in people? Much harder. We contain multitudes, says Walt Whitman. Rav Lach, says Moshe to the Jewish people – which is commonly translated as “it’s enough already,” but I like to interpret it as “you’re kind of a lot.” People are so complicated. “I love humanity, it’s peop

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