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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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

Land, Liberty, and Leviticus: Proclaiming Jubilee

At Adamah, we believe that caring for one another and cultivating a healthy relationship with the land are essential to a thriving democracy. As the United States marks 250 years, this resource offers timely perspectives…

Rosh Hashanah Sustainable Resources

Rosh Hashanah, which literally means the “head of the year”, is the Jewish New Year. The holiday of Rosh Hashanah is the perfect time to let the blasts of the shofar shake you awake to…
Categories: Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: Holidays

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

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

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

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

Mourning and Redemption: Av

Here in West Sonoma County, California, I’m wondering what this time of summer dearth – of dry earth and empty nectar – might illuminate about the month of Av. I’m curiously poking around to see what the ants entering my kitchen…

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…

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

Iyar and Nettles

As we enter Iyar, the Hebrew month of healing, the wildflowers are in bloom and refreshing spring greens are abundant.  In the Torah, the people are wandering in the desert, navigating interpersonal conflicts and the…
Categories: Cooking and Nutrition, Herbalism & Wild Edibles

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

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

Purim Sustainable Resources

What is Purim? Purim celebrates Esther and Mordechai’s triumph over Haman. Set in ancient Persia, the Book of Esther tells how an inept monarch allowed a hate-filled minister to threaten the Jewish community. Mordechai aided…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Food Traditions
Tags: Holidays

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

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

Climate Action Shabbat Guide

This Shabbat Guide is organized around how to take meaningful climate action as an individual, in community, and through the political system. Produced in partnership with Dayenu. Download the Climate Action Shabbat Guide
Categories: Adamah Publications, Environmental Justice, Shabbat and Holidays,
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, High School, Middle School, Young Adults