“A student of Rabbi Eliyahu Dushnitzer relates that once while walking with his teacher, the two became involved in a deep discussion. At one point they stopped walking and stood in the same spot for a long time. Without realizing what he had done, the student tore off a leaf from a nearby tree.
Rabbi Dushnitzer grabbed his hand and censured him, “What did you do? Even if the value of what you took is less than one “prutah” it is considered stealing.” -Mordecai Katz
Nature is our responsibility to live in, appreciate and use, not abuse or take for granted. That is why we have blessings that we recite when seeing magnificent aspects of nature, God’s work.
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