Shavuot at Isabella Freedman

2025 Pricing

• Standard Room (Private Bathroom): $955 per adult in double occupancy | $1,530 single occupancy
• Basic Room (Shared full bathroom between two rooms): $735 per adult in double occupancy | $1,175 single occupancy
• Dormitory Style (shared half bathroom between two rooms) multiple occupancy: $525 per adult
• Child (5-12): $215
• Toddler (2-4): $105
• Infant (under 2): $0
• Camper: $420 (bring your own tent)
• Commuter: $420
  • one-day option coming soon

Scholarships: We believe retreats are important experiences to be shared. Inclusiveness is one of our core values. We strive to ensure that our retreats are as financially accessible as possible. The Tamar Fund makes that aspiration possible – please apply for a scholarship before registering. The Tamar Fund is in loving memory of Tamar Bittelman z’’l. Scholarships are available for the full stay only.

2025 Davening and Ritual

We will have two davening options.

A Renewal minyan led by Rabbi Yosef Goldman, cofounder of Kedmah, and Eliana Light, Founder of the Light Lab 

An Orthodox Partnership minyan led by Rosh Yeshiva and President of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT) Rabbi Dov Linzer, Rabbanit Devorah Zlochower, and YCT rabbinical student Raffi Levi. 

Program Highlights

Planning for the 2025 retreat is underway. See our previous 2023 retreat schedule here.

Join us as we celebrate Matan Torah (the giving of the Torah) in the Berkshires! Where else to celebrate our harvest than next to our Adamah Farm, with 20 acres of fields, orchards, and pasture that grow much of the food that guests at Isabella Freedman enjoy every retreat? Enjoy engaging classes, moving tefillah, deep Torah learning with our guest leadership from our partnerships with Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT)! We will also offer yoga classes, as well as kayaking on our very own Lake Miriam. We will offer two minyanim, one an Orthodox Partnership minyan, and the other a Renewal minyan. 

Tikkun Leil Shavuot

Our all-night learning will include Torah and text classes on the temptation of idolatry, the feminist prophetess Devorah, and join us by the lake for a niggun bonfire! 

Check out the following examples of classes.

Bikkurim Parade

The Mishna tells us that Shavuot is a time to gather our bikkurim, the first fruits of our harvest, and bring them as gifts to the Temple in Jerusalem. Join us as we reenact this ancient pilgrimage to celebrate our local first fruits of rye, mustard greens, spring garlic, and more. 

Adamah Programs

Join our Adamah Farm staff on night walks, guided hikes, farm tours, a walk through Chestnutlandia, and more. 

Youth Programming

Isabella Freedman’s youth programming is an outdoor-focused, collaborative, and exciting experience for all who choose to join. Grounded in the natural world, our program provides the opportunity for children ages 2-12 to find a place to learn, grow, and enjoy the beautiful outdoors at Camp Adamah.

Camp Adamah

Ages 5-12

Camp Teva provides many hands-on and nature-based experiential activities. Some examples include hikes, outdoor games, drama/improv, and farm-related adventures on the Adamah farm. We provide morning and afternoon programming except on arrival and departure days, with times based on the davening and meal schedules. The afternoon session is divided into separate divisions by age.

Gan Adamah

Ages 2-4

Parents and guardians can choose to drop off their children or stay with them. Gan Adamah provides a safe and engaging space to play, explore, sing, and move. Children younger than two may attend, but parents/guardians must stay. Programming is provided in the morning except on arrival and departure days, and times are based on the davening schedule.

Youth Educators

Coming soon

2025 Teachers and Educators

Rabbi Dov Linzer

Rabbi Dov Linzer is the President and Rosh HaYeshiva (Rabbinic Head) of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT), an Orthodox rabbinical school and Torah center which promotes a more open and inclusive Orthodoxy. A leading Torah voice in the Modern Orthodox community, Rabbi Linzer serves as religious mentor to YCT’s students and its over 200 rabbis in the United States and Israel. He has written for The Forward, Tablet and The New York Times, has published hundreds of teshuvot (responsa) and scholarly Torah articles, and hosted a number of highly popular Torah podcasts. He is most recently the author, together with Abigail Pogrebin, of “It Takes Two to Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses.”

Raffi Levi

Raffi Levi (he/him) is a chazzan, activist, nature enthusiast, and is in his final year of semikha at YCT. Throughout rabbinical school, Raffi has interned with synagogues and campus Hillels, participated in social justice fellowships for clergy, led backpacking trips for Jewish teens and adults, and worked as a chaplain, mashgiach, and culinary arts educator. Raffi currently lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife, Daphne.

Rabbanit Devorah Zlochower 

Rabbanit Devorah Zlochower serves as YCT’s Senior Scholar in her public-facing role as well as Mashgichah Ruchanit (Spiritual Guide) and teacher of Talmud and Halakha to the rabbinical students within the yeshiva. Prior to taking on her current role at YCT, Devorah served at different times as Dean, Rosh Yeshiva and Rosh Kollel at Yeshivat Maharat. In her decades of teaching and leadership, Devorah has mentored hundreds of students who continue to turn to her for personal and religious guidance. Devorah has written and served on dozens of panels on religious feminism and her most passionate advocacy work focuses on full membership of people with disabilities in all our communal institutions.

Eliana Light 

Eliana is a musician, prayer leader, and educator with 10+ years of experience making the urgent spiritual wisdom of t’fillah accessible and meaningful for all ages. Since graduating from JTS with a masters in experiential education, she has song-led in synagogues, started minyanim, taught at conferences and graduate schools, written curricula, toured as an artist-in-residence, founded the Light Lab-a center for t’fillah education, hosted the Light Lab podcast, and put out four albums of original Jewish music!

Rabbi Yosef Goldman

Rabbi Yosef Goldman is a renowned composer, vocalist, educator, ritual artist and prayer leader who bridges ancient Jewish traditions with contemporary spiritual creativity. His original music is sung in communities, synagogues, and camps across the U.S. and Israel. He teaches and leads prayer in spiritually vibrant communities across every movement in Jewish life. He is cofounder of Kedmah, an ensemble celebrating the sacred music of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews.

Rabbi Pesach Stadlin

Pesach Stadlin is a passionate and talented rabbi, group leader, song leader, wilderness guide, experiential educator, musician, spirit guide, tree-sitter, author, certified permaculture designer, artist and community builder for the Jewish people and beyond.

Classes

Rabbi Dov Linzer 

Rabbanit Devorah Zlochower 

Raffi Levi