Nature & the Environment Quiz

Question 1 of 10

How many shemitah years occur before there is one yovel year?

Question 2 of 10

What does the Torah mandate the Jewish people do every seven years?

Question 3 of 10

True or false: Maimonides believed that animals were created solely for the purposes of humans.

Question 4 of 10

Where does Jewish environmental education take place?

Question 5 of 10

Where in the Bible is the commandment to tend to and till the world?

Question 6 of 10

According to Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, why did the Bible require that levitical cities be surrounded by green space?

Question 7 of 10

Which of the following contemporary environmental concepts can be found in traditional Jewish sources?

Question 8 of 10

How do many Israelis deal with the challenges of the shemitah (sabbatical) year?

Question 9 of 10

Which Israelite tribe was not given agricultural land and essentially remained urban?

Question 10 of 10

What is the Jubilee year?

The year during which the Garden of Eden will begin to spread over the Middle East, eventually encompassing Jerusalem and all of biblical Israel
Every fiftieth year during which the Bible mandates that there be no agricultural work; all landed property was to revert to its original owner; and slaves were to be set free
Every fiftieth year when the people were commanded not to waste anything, and to bring all of their food scraps to the capital cities to be given to the poor
Every fiftieth year when trees could not be cut down, and animals were not to be slaughtered

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