Rewilding the Tree of Life: Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change. This lecture will explore how deep engagement with Jewish law and theology may help us respond to the rapidly mounting threats of global climate change and ecological degradation. Grappling with the full range of Jewish religious literature, from Bible and Talmud to mysticism, poetry, and philosophy, we shall consider how these sources can help us address such problems through developing a capacious approach to environmental ethics, education, and activism. At the same time, we will engage deeply with Pope Francis’s remarkable environmental legacy, most visible in his landmark Laudato Si, and will put his writing into dialogue with Jewish legal and theological traditions. In doing so, I will make an argument for the need to “rewild” both religious and secular education in our day. Rather than examining environmental problems from within highly curated fields of knowledge or parochial lenses, we ought to approach scholarship and teaching as taking place within an ecotone—the fertile transitional realm between different ecosystems or communities that is a marshy site of complexity, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration across boundaries and differences.