Tag: Text

Let’s Eat! Why Do We Eat Together?

yesThis program is designed to be primarily a discussion based around eating, looking both at Jewish texts as well as secular contemporary sources....

Shmita Resource Library

yesThis is a collection of shmita resources from all across the internet that Hazon has brought together in one place. Curricula, educational materials, essays, articles,...

Shabbat Ha’aretz

yesRav Kook’s Introduction to Shabbat Ha’Aretz is the first-ever English translation of the introduction to a book on shmita (Biblical sabbatical year) by Rabbi Abraham Isaac...

Shmita Sourcebook

yesThe Shmita Sourcebook is designed to encourage participants to think critically about the Shmita Cycle – its values, challenges, and opportunities – and how this tradition...

Setting the Table

yesStarting a family commences a period of change. Expectant parents very quickly transition from thinking for themselves to providing for a new life, and the...

Food for Thought

yesFood for Thought is is a 130-page sourcebook that draws on a range of texts from within and beyond Jewish traditions to explore a range of topics...

Throwing Stones or Throwing Flowers: Exploring Our Relationship with the Public Domain

yesThis program presents students with the opportunity to delve deeply into the hidden messages of verse 50b of the Bava Kama (the stones text). Through...

Bringing The Stones’ into the 21st Century

yes‘The Stones’ text, from Talmud Bavli, Masekhet Bava Kama 50b, brings its readers back to ancient times. However, the lessons that can be learned from...

Gratitude: God, Heschel, and Neruda

yesAn hour-long program designed to explorer Heschel’s philosophy of Radical Amazement. It is a lower-energy, discussion-based program that benefits from a garden or similarly beautiful...

Stone Wall

yesThis program is a physically active introduction to The Stones text from the Talmud Bavli, Masekbet Bava Kama, which raises many questions about land, responsibility,...

Saving Creation One Hoshanah at a Time: An alternative Hoshanah Rabbah Ritual

yesThis program is an interactive and connective approach to the ritual of Hoshanah Rabbah. Each day of Sukkot we say Hoshanah! meaning ‘Please Save Us!?’...

Understanding Pollinators

yesUnderstanding pollinators is an hour-long educational program that teaches about the importance of pollinators in our habitat. This program uses honeybees as a ‘gateway pollinator’...

Philly Farm Crew Text Study

yesThis program is to engage with both Jewish and non-Jewish environmentally themed texts after having had the experience of working on a farm. This is...