Intention for community garlic planting at the end of a harvest season, by Jess Berlin

Garlic is typically the last crop planted on a farm, it is planted in the fall and harvested the following summer. So you are leaving a legacy for next years farmers (which might be you). We begin by separating the garlic bulbs from the cloves, similar to separating people from their community. Then, once the individual (garlic cloves) are planted, they form new communities in the ground. Similar to the process that we are all going through. Leaving our community here on the farm and going out into the world to create new communities. . . .

Categories: Congregation & Community, Separation, Planting

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Adamah Farm, ADVA Reunion, Garlic, Prayers of Jewish Farmers, Teva Learning Center, Until Next Time

Contributor(s): Daniel Landau (translation) and Jessica Berlin

תְּפִילַת הוֹלְכִים לְאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה | Prayer for Those Leaving Home for University, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

A prayer for the safety and success of those leaving home to go off to college and university. When children go off to college, parents can feel worried about the future of their children. Empty-nest syndrome can set in and spiritual guidance is often needed. This prayer uses the idioms of Biblical and siddur language to create a text for parents who worry about their children’s future as they head off on their own. It could be said 49 days after Tekufat Tammuz in the diaspora (August 28 or 29 after a leap year – approximately the time when college terms begin in the US) or on the first Saturday after Shmini Atzeret ba’aretz (approximately when college terms begin in Israel) . . .

Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Travel, Separation

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., children, college, North America, parents, students, supplications, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

מתי לא לבקש סליחה | When not to seek forgiveness, by Josh Rosenberg

A thought about the need to seek forgiveness from those you’ve wronged during this week before Yom Kippur: . . .

Categories: Days of Judgement & New Year Days, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation, Separation, Self-Reflection

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, Between people, beyn adam l'adam, Due deferrence, self-forgiveness, סליחות səliḥot, תוכחות tokheḥot, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah

Contributor(s): Josh Rosenberg

Blessing over Separation, by Shelby Handler

The Blessing over Separations was first read by Shelby Handler on Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev at the 2017 ADVA Reunion, a reunion of the community of Adamah Farm fellows and Teva Learning Center educators at Isabella Freedman Retreat Center. . . .

Categories: Separation, Motsei Shabbat

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Adamah Farm, blessings, ברכות brakhot, English vernacular prayer, הבדלות havdalot, North America, Prayers as poems

Contributor(s): Shelby Handler