Discussion Questions
- According to these Biblical verses, from where does our food come?
- What is our responsibility to the sources of our food?
- Our tradition teaches that at the beginning of the world, humans were vegetarians and it was not until after the flood and during Noah’s generation that humans were “allowed” to eat meat. What then, does “dominion over” the animals mean in this Biblical passage? Does that change or confirm your beliefs about what is okay to eat?
- Later in Genesis/Bereishit, Adam is told that one result of his and Eve’s eating from the tree of knowledge is that humans will now have to work for their food, tilling the soil. Does that seem to you to be a punishment or are there practical reasons that working for our food makes sense, eg. the ability to grow only what we choose to eat, for example.
