Learning Source Sheets

Adas Resources from A - Z

Text and Source Sheet Archive

Text-Learning is the heart of our Beit Midrash experience at Adas Israel. Multiple times a week groups gather to explore, interpret, and integrate into their lives ancient Jewish wisdom written over the past 3,000 years. On this page you’ll find links to the texts and source-sheets crafted by our clergy and teachers.  Enjoy!

Genesis / Bereshit

"And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." (Bereshit 1:27)

Exodus / Shemot

"It came to pass on that very day, that the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt with their legions." (Shemot 13:51)

Leviticus / Va-Yikra

"When you bring an offering to the Lord, bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock." (Vayikra 1:2)

Numbers / Bamidbar

"Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by families following their fathers' houses; a head count of every male according to the number of their names." (Bamidbar 1:2)

Deuteronomy / Devarim

"The Lord, your God, has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the heavens in abundance." (Devarim 1:10)

Neviim: Ketuvim

"Let justice roll down like waters, righteousness like a mighty stream." (Amos 5:24)

5 Megillot

“Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God." (Megillat Ruth 1:16)

Shabbat

"On the seventh day God finished the work… and ceased from all the work … and God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because on it God ceased from all the work of creation…” (Bereshit 2:2-3)

Holidays

"You will dwell in booths for seven days; all natives of Israel shall dwell in booths." (Vayikra 23:42)

Israel

"He gave us this Land, a Land flowing with milk and honey." (Devarim 26:9)

Essential Talmudic Passages

"There is no community where everyone is rich; neither is there a community where everyone is poor" (Jerusalem Talmud, Gitten 3:7)

Jewish Law

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord God gives you." (Shemot 20:12)

Kashrut

“Bring the best of the first fruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk." (Shemot 23:19)

Concepts, Prayer and Rituals

"You shall serve God with your whole heart." (Devarim 11:13)