As a child, Solomon loved the forest and visited it often. But all too soon Solomon grows up and becomes a king. He becomes very busy and forgets about the forest and his friends, the animals. In this lushly illustrated environmental midrash, Solomon comes to understand the price that must be paid when we don’t take care of the earth and its blessings.
Matt Biers-Ariel writes on two topics: religion and environmental sustainability. His latest book, The Bar Mitzvah and The Beast: One Family's Cross-Country Ride of Passage by Bike combines both topics.
On the religious side, Biers-Ariel is a self-described liberal Bible-thumper. While his writing begins with a close reading of the original biblical or rabbinic text, he is not constrained by the belief that the text is the literal word of God. His writing seeks to uncover truths often ignored in mainstream biblical analysis, and in biblical stories that no longer resonate for him, he is not afraid to revision them.
On the sustainability side, Biers-Ariel reveals how to build a future where Greenland does not become the world's center for pineapple cultivation.
