Adamah Educational Library

Curricula, sourcebooks & educational resources

This open source collection includes resources produced by individuals and organizations throughout the JOFEE field. Our Educational Library, like our community, celebrates the diversity of religious observance and thought and we make every effort to accommodate the breadth and diversity of the Jewish community in our programs and curricula. We hope you will take and use what is appropriate for you and invite others to do the same.

While this resource will continue to grow and evolve, it currently includes:

  • Adamah Publications (available online and in print)
  • Holiday Resources
  • Curricula produced by JOFEE Fellows during their Fellowship year (2017-2019)
  • Curricula and resources shared from partner organizations

All materials are available for free download. Most are available for use and adaptation under creative commons license. Please cite authors and organizations on any materials used or adapted from these resources.

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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

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

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

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

Alef Elul: Jewish New Year for Animals

Categories: Animals, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Food Traditions, Spiritual Nature Experience
Tags: chickens, mezuzas, singing
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, 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

Ancient Garden Medicinal Herbs

Categories: Crafting + DIY, Herbalism & Wild Edibles, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Spiritual Nature Experience
Tags: learning, medicinal herbs, nature, sensory
Age: B'nai Mitzvah, Teens

Av – Exile & Return

My assimilated parents didn’t teach me about Av, the destruction of the temples and diaspora, or even that we were Jewish. We were in exile from our ancestry and didn’t know it. When I was…

Ba’al Taaschit Heros

Categories: Food & Climate, Group-building, Sustainability
Tags: animals, Compost, farming, waste
Age: Elementary

Becoming Shomrei Adamah

Categories: Food & Climate, Group-building, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Sustainability
Tags: Families, Large group, Shabbat, Shabbaton, Shomrei Adamah, Stations
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Early Childhood, Elementary, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Bento Boxes and Jewish Food Blessings

Categories: Cooking and Nutrition, Crafting + DIY, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Food Traditions
Tags: bento, blessings, cooking
Age: Elementary

Betzalel’s Workshop

Betzalel’s Workshop involves creating and working with ritual objects from local, organic, ethically sourced, and recycled materials, participants will learn both the centrality of environmental responsibility to Jewish life, as well as a sense of…
Categories: Crafting + DIY, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual
Tags: Betzalel, ritual, Teva
Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Beyond Horseradish: Exploring Maror

This program helps us explore and expand our relationship to Maror. After learning through a text study that the definition of Maror is different and also more expansive than we might have thought, participants will…
Categories: Crafting + DIY, Jewish Food Traditions, Passover
Tags: Maror, Mishna, passover, text study
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Birdfeeder

Categories: Animals, Crafting + DIY, Sustainability
Tags: birdfeeder, Teva
Age: Elementary, Teens