First Fruits and Other Gifts

About this episode

Jan Goldstein explores the themes of the Jewish holiday Shavuot and the gifts of nature through poetry.

The Jewish holiday of Shavuot celebrates the first fruits of springtime. Jan shares three poems that open us to the gifts nature gives us, and how we each can find human gifts in our everyday lives, there for the picking.

People in this episode

Host: Jan Goldstein

Topics covered

• Jewish holiday
• nature gifts
• poetry
• human gifts
• everyday life

Keywords

• Shavuot
• first fruits
• poems
• nature
• gifts
• everyday life

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