A Taste of ADAMAH

August 13-19
Co-sponsored by Hazon

Join us for a taste of the Isabella Freedman ADAMAH Fellowship program: five days of digging in Jewish tradition and in the soil. The class will balance study, work with our hands, song, and ritual aimed at restoring Jewish ecological wisdom.

Learn to brew biodiesel and grow organic vegetables on our five-acre farm, milk goats and make cheese, and study our ancestral agricultural and earth-based heritage.

During this week of the new moon of Elul, discover how the process of spiritual return is connected to the renewal of the ground. Participants will join Isabella Freedman’s ADAMAH Fellows in prayer, work in the field, new moon celebration, and learning sessions, and then celebrate our gratitude for the land with a joyful Shabbat.

This is a Morning Class

A class during the Sacred Earth/Kabbalah Week August 13-19, 2007.

Teachers

Rabbi Jill Hammer is a writer, educator, ritualist, and midrashist. She is the author of The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons, Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women, and also of many essays, stories, and poems. She is the director of Tel Shemesh, a website and community celebrating earth-based Jewish traditions, and the co-founder of Kohenet. She serves as an instructor at the Academy of Jewish Religion, the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, CLAL, and in many other venues.

Dr. Shamu Sadeh the ADAMAH Fellowship Program Director, an environmental studies instructor, Jewish educator, writer, organic gardener, and wilderness guide. He has taught environmental studies, ecology, and Judaic Studies at Portland State University, Berkshire Community College, Southern Vermont College, and the Wild Rockies Field Institute.

Adam Berman is the Executive Director of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center and Founder/Director of ADAMAH: The Jewish Environmental Fellowship.

Back to top

Registration Information

Adult Fees

The program fee for this class is $450. Fees are per person, and do not include the cost of Room and Board (see table on the right).

Room and board includes housing, meals, Shabbat services, evening activities, hot tub, yoga, meditation, and full use of our facility. All rooms are air-conditioned in the summer and heated in the winter. Adults fees apply to ages 15 and higher.

Limited financial aid is available.

Arrival and Departure

Please arrive between 2pm and 5pm on the day your retreat begins. Retreats end with brunch at 11:30am on the last day of the retreat.

Cancellation Policy

• Receive a full refund minus a $75 processing fee for cancellations more than 30 days prior to retreat.
• If you cancel between 30 days and one day in advance, a non-refundable credit (less a $75 processing fee) will be held for one year from the date of issue. This credit is non-transferable.
• No credit or refund is available if you cancel less than 24 hours in advance or on the workshop’s arrival day, if you do not attend a retreat, or if you leave a retreat early for any reason.

The Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality reserves the right to cancel any program at any time. In this event, you will be given a complete refund.

For transportation: A full refund of transportation fees is available if you cancel at least three days (72 hours) in advance. No refund is available if less than three days notice is given. For more information on getting here, please visit our Travel & Transportation page.

Register now!

Back to top