The Haggadah is designed to create a similar setting to a Passover seder – creating conversation with friends, peers, and colleagues, while enjoying wine and special foods. While Passover focuses on slavery and freedom, Tu B’Shvat focuses on pertinent issues relating to ecology, the environment, and sustainability.

In addition to the Haggadot below, you can find additional resources and activity ideas on our list of Tu B’Shvat Sustainable Resources.

Tu B’Shvat Haggadah by Jewish Youth Climate Movement

The Jewish Youth Climate Movement (JYCM), a program of Adamah, is empowering our network of young Jews to host local seders aligned with our vision of integrating Jewish tradition with climate action. The JYCM Tu B’Shvat Haggadah is a teen-made resource that includes blessings, climate commentary, and framings for your seder.

Download a free copy of the JYCM haggadah

Looking for activities and other ideas to help celebrate the holiday as a young adult? Check out this Tu B’Shvat Program Guide compiled by Adamah on Campus student leaders.

Adamah Tu B’Shvat Haggadah

The Adamah Tu B’Shvat Haggadah uses Jewish text and climate science to focus on pertinent issues relating to ecology, the environment, and sustainability – and how we consider the changing needs of the world in every generation so we can best ensure a safer, stronger, and more sustainable world.

Download a free copy of the Adamah haggadah

2019 Tu B’Shvat Haggadah: Hazon Seder and Sourcebook (MLK Day)

The 2019 Tu B’Shvat haggadah features the blessings on wine and symbolic foods, various thematic activities, as well as four sets of texts focusing on our relationship with food, trees, the land of Israel, and the wider world. This was created when Martin Luther King Jr. Day fell on Tu B’Shvat this year, so the final section adds a social justice component featuring excerpts from Dr. King’s teachings.

Download a free copy of the MLK Day haggadah

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Our short guide contains kiddush for Rosh Hashanah, a series of prayers to be recited over different symbolic foods, and other verses and prayers for the new year.

“Abaye said: Now that you have said that omens can be significant, on Rosh Hashanah one should eat gourds, fenugreek, leeks, beets, and dates.”

Babylonian Talmud, Keritot 6a

This Talmud teaching forms the basis of our Rosh Hashanah seder with its simanim (symbolic foods) and blessings. Over time, different Jewish communities have added their own traditions and interpretations.

While some foods, such as apples with honey or pomegranates, have become near universal, we have also included other Ashkenazi, Sefardi, and Mizrahi customs, creating a ritual that reflects the diversity of modern Judaism. With each symbolic food, a prayer is recited. Many use a play on words related to the Hebrew, but other traditions contain puns using Aramaic, Yiddish, or Farsi.

Feel free to download a version that can be printed into an 8-page booklet or print a 4-page handout to enjoy at your table.

Booklet Version

8-page PDF to print as a booklet

Handout Version

4-page PDF to print as a handout

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Translated as “Release,” Shmita is integral to the Torah’s vision of a just society. Though the specifics of Shmita observance have changed throughout Jewish history, its inherent values remain prescient. Shmita, with its dual acknowledgment and transcendence of the agricultural and economic realm, offers an opportunity for social reset and renewal to the entire Jewish world – and beyond.

This 3rd edition is completely redesigned with the user experience in mind, many additional sources, and more thorough commentary and explanations. This comprehensive, accessible sourcebook is well-suited for individual, partnered, and group study, with guiding text and discussion questions to enhance your learning, regardless of educational background. The Hazon Shmita Sourcebook offers a holistic understanding of Shmita, from the depth of Jewish tradition to the most pressing issues of our time.

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