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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Genesis, the Shmita Covenant, and the Land Ethic

The Genesis texts in this study trace the devolution of humanity’s two most important relationships, the relationship with the land and the relationship with God. Specifically, whenever one relationship degenerates so does the other one.…
Categories: Shmita
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
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Weekly Parsha Divrei Torah

For the past 20 years, Adamah and its predecessors have been using Jewish tradition as the basis for a series of Jewish Environmental teachings, which we now call Torah of the Earth. Here you can…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Shabbat and Holidays, Shmita
Tags: Shmita
Age: Adults

Food for Thought

Sourcebook on Jews, Food & Contemporary Life Food for Thought is designed to encourage participants to think critically about the food that they eat and the ways their food choices affect the health of their community…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Food Systems & Food Justice
Tags: Adult learning, food justice, Text, young adult, young adults
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Teens, Young Adults

Passover in the Desert: 2nd Night Seder Youth Skit

The Four Children Collaborative Performance – Art & Storytelling Around the Fire As part of Wilderness Torah’s Passover in the Desert festival, for the second-night Passover seder, we are doing an off-the-page co-created celebration around…
Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Passover, Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: earth-based, Four Questions, passover, Seder, storytelling
Age: B'nai Mitzvah, Early Childhood, Elementary

Setting a Conscious Table

Four questions to help you prepare a Passover Seder As you prepare for the Passover seder this year, consider using these four questions to help inform your own conscious food choices, and to enhance your…
Categories: Food & Climate, Jewish Food Traditions, Passover, Shabbat and Holidays, Sustainability

Clearing Out the Old to Make Room for the New: A Passover Tradition

This program has been implemented as part of a 9-week series called Fantastic Farmers that meets for one hour per week at Newton Community Farm. The farm is a non-profit community farm located next door…
Categories: Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food Traditions, Passover
Tags: farm and garden, passover, planting
Age: Elementary

Matzah Making

Students will learn how to make flour from wheat and make matzah from the flour. By Danielle Smith, Eden Village Camp Matzah Making Eden Village
Categories: Cooking and Nutrition, Jewish Food Traditions, Passover, Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: DIY, Matzah, passover
Age: B'nai Mitzvah

The ECO Passover connection

This program connects children to the modern day issues of environmental plagues through an in depth look at text describing the plagues in the passover story, while also getting to appreciate the wonder of animals…
Categories: Cooking and Nutrition, Jewish Food Traditions, Passover, Shabbat and Holidays
Tags: Matzah, passover
Age: B'nai Mitzvah, Early Childhood, Elementary

Post-Pesach Wild Edibles Hike

This program brings the Biblical story of Pesach into a modern urban nature setting. Participants are encouraged to take on the roles of wandering Israelites recently escaped from Egypt, while also learning about the plants…
Categories: Herbalism & Wild Edibles, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Passover, Spiritual Nature Experience
Tags: exodus, hike, passover, pesach, spring, Wild Edibles
Age: Middle School

Passover on the Farm

This program was designed for families with young children to connect with each other, their community, and the earth through multi-sensory activities centered around Passover and the coming of spring. By Molly Sease from Milk…
Categories: Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food Traditions, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Passover
Tags: Food, nature, passover, pesach, seder plate, spring, tradition
Age: Early Childhood

Shmita with Acorns

Categories: Food Systems & Food Justice, Group-building, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Shmita
Tags: classroom, hands on, indoor, Shmita
Age: Elementary

Shmita Wild Edibles Cards

This program is a unique, interactive activity for a festival-style event that combines knowledge of local wild edible plants and the Jewish tradition of Shmita. For this program, the educator creates four unique “trading cards”…
Categories: Food & Climate, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Herbalism & Wild Edibles, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Shmita
Tags: Cards, Foraging, Perennials, Shmita, tabling, Wild Edibles
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Early Childhood, Elementary, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Shabbat Ha’aretz

[button color=”red” link=”http://store.adamah.org” window=”yes”]Purchase Shabbat HaAretz[/button] We are proud to share The Sabbath of the Land, a translation of Rav Kook’s Shabbat HaAretz! Hazon published the first edition on the eve of the shmita year…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Environmental Justice, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Shmita, , Sustainability
Tags: earth-care, farm and garden, Shmita, Text, torah
Age: Adults

Shmita Sourcebook

Written and compiled by former Shmita Project Manager Yigal Deutscher, with the support of Anna Hanau and Nigel Savage, The Shmita Sourcebook is designed to encourage participants to think critically about the Shmita Cycle – its…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Food Systems & Food Justice, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food Traditions, Shmita, , Sustainability
Tags: Culture, farm and garden, nature, Shmita, Text
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Teens, Young Adults

Todah-Giving: Garlic Gratitude

Categories: Herbalism & Wild Edibles, Spiritual Nature Experience
Tags: farm and garden, garlic, gratitude, planting
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Early Childhood, Elementary, Families, Teens, Young Adults