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Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual

A Teaching for Cheshvan

We are entering the month of Cheshvan, often called MarCheshvan. Tradition has sometimes understood mar as “bitter,” because after the overflowing holidays of Tishrei, Cheshvan brings us a real pause.  But the name has a…
Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual

Tishrei: Entering the Waters

At Pesach, we stand at the hinge of the seasons. The rains are ending. The dry season is beginning. And we turn to the element of fire to clear our homes of chametz.  Flour and…
Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Sukkot

A Teaching for Elul

Elul opens with an ascent. On the first of the month, Moshe climbs the mountain again—not for the first time, but for the third. He carries only two new rough stone tablets and the courage…
Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual

Climate Reflections on Tisha B’Av

Tisha B’Av, tonight and tomorrow, marks the lowest point in our people’s long journey – and in recognizing what led us here, the 9th of Av also carries within it the seeds of hope.  Our greatest calamities befell us on this day, as recalled in the painful…
Categories: Climate Action, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual

Tammuz: A Pause For Grief

It feels like this year there is so much to tend to in our collective grief. Once again, we lean to the inherent wisdom of our Calendar, where much around us withers in the summer…
Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual

A Teaching for Sivan

The Jewish mystics teach that each Hebrew month has a specific practice that unlocks the spiritual work of the season. For this month of Sivan, they prescribe the practice of walking. Not leaping, not escaping,…
Categories: Shauvot

A Message for Nisan

Rosh Chodesh Tov. We are entering Nisan, the Hebrew month of spring and rebirth. The daffodils have broken through the soil, and all around us life is stirring again. Nisan is also the month of…
Categories: Passover

Teaching for the Month of Adar

In Adar, Purim unmasks the serious adult who has it all figured out and returns us in childlike wonder to our vulnerable and honest dance with mystery.  Just like early spring with its tight buds,…
Categories: Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: purim

Tisha B’Av In a Time of Climate Change

‘For These Things Do I Weep’ Adamah takes its name from the Hebrew word for earth — and from the relationship at the center of the Torah’s second creation story: Adam, the human being, formed…
Categories: Climate Action, Environmental Justice, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual

A Purim Teaching from Rabbinical Student Becca Heisler

Purim comes on the full moon of the Hebrew month of Adar, the 11th month in the Hebrew calendar. Adar brings with it an air of mystery, trickery, and unexpectedness. In Massachusett and Pawtucket territory,…
Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Purim
Tags: purim

Tu B’Shvat Haggadah

Adamah’s Haggadot offer texts, questions, and suggestions for viewing Tu B’Shvat through fresh eyes and recontextualizing traditions. The Haggadah is designed to create a similar setting to a Passover seder – creating conversation with friends,…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food Traditions, Tu Bishvat
Tags: Tu B'Shvat
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Tu B’Shvat on Campus

Compiled by Adamah on Campus student leaders Consider the time your group has and pick an activity from any or all these categories to build out a customized program that will meet the moment on…
Categories: Tu Bishvat
Tags: Holidays, Tu B'Shvat

Rosh Hashanah Seder

Symbolic foods and other prayers for the night of Rosh Hashanah Our short guide contains kiddush for Rosh Hashanah, a series of prayers to be recited over different symbolic foods, and other verses and prayers…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food Traditions, Shabbat and Holidays
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Sustainable Passover Resources

New for 2026: Adamah Seder Supplement to Download This new Adamah resource draws from deep Torah of the Earth to ground and inspire your seder. Learn about karpas from Adamah’s Farm Director, go on a…
Categories: Food Systems & Food Justice, Passover,
Tags: Holidays, passover, pesach

Shabbat Sustainable Resources

Hosting a Shabbat meal is a wonderful way to spend quality time with family and friends without the distractions of the everyday (email, ringing cell phones, distracting smartphone messages…). It also offers an amazing template…
Categories: Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: Holidays, Shabbat

Updated Shmita Sourcebook

The Hazon Shmita Sourcebook presents a guided exploration of the history, concepts, and practices of Shmita, from debt forgiveness to agricultural rest, economic adjustment to charitable giving. The updated sourcebook explores texts and commentaries that…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Environmental Justice, Food Systems & Food Justice, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Shmita, , Sustainability
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, High School, Young Adults