Hazon Educational Library: Adults
Sephirot Ha’Omer: Oracle Cards
Allow intuition to guide you. Explore what resonates for you. Leave behind what does not resonate. Ultimately, the oracle cards are you ? your connection, intuition and interpretation.
Exploring Do it Yourself Judaism: Crafting Hand Dipped Beeswax Shabbat Candles
In this program, participants explore the intention of Shabbat and the traditional and modern meaning and purpose of lighting Shabbat candles. Participants learn about the value of making Jewish ritual objects by hand, and get a small taste of the exciting world of bees!
Mikveh: Jewish Ritual Immersion in Living Waters
This program leads participants in mikveh, Jewish ritual immersion, in a spring-fed stream.
Age(s): Adults
Nonviolent Communication with Young Children
This program is intended to showcase the social emotional learning content we provide our campers and camp staff with in both camp staff training, and on a daily basis. The program includes a beginning intro to nonviolent communication (NVC), games, and practice.
Category: Group-building
Age(s): Adults
Meditative Kabbalat Shabbat on the Farm
Explore the landscape and tune into your spirituality by engaging with nature and self through song and silence.
ZMAN KODESH ON THE FARM
This program was created as a way to engage a group of a variety of comfort levels with prayer in an authentic yet accessible farm-based prayer experience.
Home Experience: Elderberry Syrup Buffet
Elderberry Syrup Buffet is a hands-on lesson about simple plant medicine making with tangible connections to place and seasons.
CSA Program Write Up
This program seeks to engage the Detroit and metro Detroit Jewish community in an intentional, educational, local, and sustainable food buying practice with clear roots in community and Jewish tradition.
Category: Environmental Justice, Food Systems & Food Justice, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Sustainability
Age(s): Adults
Intro to Privilege and Oppression
This program will provide a basic understanding of concepts such as privilege, oppression, power, socialization and identities. It will provide definitions and explanations of concepts so that participants will be able to have a shared language.
Age(s): Adults
Bringing the Book Outdoors: The Shema
This program is a text study with an accompanying nature walk. The text study dives into the environmental teachings within the full text, and the night-time nature walk uses the Shema for inspiration to open our ears to nature and the divine.
Category: Spiritual Nature Experience
Eco-Kosher: Innovation in Jewish Tradition through an Environmental Lens
How can we use concepts of environmentalism to augment and evolve our understanding of what constitutes kosher food? What if we draw on the concept of kashrut and go beyond it to try out a new word: eco-kashrut?
Category: Environmental Justice, Food Systems & Food Justice, Jewish Food traditions, Sustainability
Age(s): Adults
Judaism and Immigration Justice – What the Book of Ruth has to Teach
This program will be a poetry workshop preparing teens or adults for Tikkun Leil Shavuot (all night studying) through an immersive and meaningful poetry workshop.
Category: Shabbat and Holidays, Social Justice
Age(s): Adults, High School
Jewish Medicinall Herb Learning: Flower Essences
Flower Essences is a hands-on lesson about plant medicine making for mind and spirit. Participants will learn about the history of flower essences, how it relates to Judaism, and then create their own essence with intention.
Category: Health and Wellness, Herbalism & Wild Edibles, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Spiritual Nature Experience
Age(s): Adults
The First Cheese
Participants will learn to make ricotta cheese from fresh goat milk, while digging into various Jewish and secular texts, guided by the question: ?Why do we eat dairy on this holiday??
Category: Food & Climate, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food traditions, Shabbat and Holidays
Age(s): Adults
Garden Shabbat
This program is an introduction to the intersection of Judaism and agriculture, woven through the experience of a Shabbat dinner with blessings, food, conversation Jews as a people of the land.
Age(s): Adults
