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Shabbat

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

Making Grape Juice

Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Food Traditions, Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: bracha, DIY, grape juice, Shabbat
Age: Middle School

The Sabbatical Year: From the Practical to the Mystical

The Torah portion of Behar deals exclusively with the Shemittah (Sabbatical year), which falls every seven years, and the Yovel (the Jubilee year), which takes place every fifty years. The concept of Shemittah and the…
Categories: Shmita
Tags: Dvar Torah, Shabbat
Age: Adults

Stop The Machine! The Sabbatical Year Principle

This year is a sabbatical year in Israel, and as usual, it’s a huge problem. The commandment described in Leviticus 25:1-7  mandates letting the land owned by Jews in their own country lie fallow every seventh…
Categories: Shmita
Tags: Dvar Torah, Shabbat
Age: Adults

Re-Pacing and (Self) Renewal

Here’s the rub: our lives and the society we live in are unsustainable. There is ample proof of this. And so we, the activists – top-downer policy wonks, and bottom-upper grassrooters – shout from the…
Categories: Shmita
Tags: Shabbat
Age: Adults

Green Kiddush Guide

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Categories: Adamah Publications, Food Systems & Food Justice, Shabbat and Holidays, Sustainability
Tags: Compost, Shabbat, waste
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah

Sacred Time and Space: A Stone’s Text Application

Categories: Group-building, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: Group Building, ritual, Shabbat, Shabbaton, Spirituality, Stones, Text Learning
Age: Adults, Young Adults

An Exploration of Jewish Time and Space

Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: Hebrew Calendar, Heschel, Holidays, Jewish Time, Shabbat
Age: Adults

Food Justice Shabbat Dinner

Categories: Food & Climate, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: Community Education, food justice, Jewish Ritual, Shabbat
Age: Adults

Sukkot Harvest Festival DC

Categories: Food & Climate, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Sukkot
Tags: 20s & 30s, cider, collaboration, community, farm and garden, local sourcing, ritual, seasonality, Shabbat, Stations, Sukkot, urban agriculture, young adults
Age: Young Adults

Holy Compost! Sacred cycles of rest and work

Categories: Food & Climate, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Sustainability
Tags: Compost, Havdallah, Shabbat, soil, vermicompost, waste, worms
Age: Adults, Teens, Young Adults