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Celebrating Trees—Tu B’Shevat
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Tu B’Shevat Homepage
Find stories, insights, videos and customs for the holiday of Tu B’Shevat, the New Year of Trees.
Find stories, insights, videos and customs for the holiday of Tu B’Shevat, the New Year of Trees.
Kabbalistic Tu B’Shevat
Learn how to conduct a Tu B’Shevat seder according to the custom of the Safed Kabbalists.
Learn how to conduct a Tu B’Shevat seder according to the custom of the Safed Kabbalists.
The Best Is Yet to Come
I’m a work in progress, unfinished business. I’m willing to learn and dedicated to growth, but I’m not there yet . . .
I’m a work in progress, unfinished business. I’m willing to learn and dedicated to growth, but I’m not there yet . . .
Story
Blossoms in the Winter
He struggled daily with the hardheaded farmer boys who were his students, for they would rather roam the countryside than learn . . .
He struggled daily with the hardheaded farmer boys who were his students, for they would rather roam the countryside than learn . . .
Holidays
Tu BiShvat in a Minute
When’s the last time you wished a tree Happy New Year? The 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat is a great opportunity.
When’s the last time you wished a tree Happy New Year? The 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat is a great opportunity.
Video
Tu B’Shevat and Healing
Learn more about the meaning of Tu B’Shevat, and some of the health and healing properties of the fruits mentioned in Deuteronomy: “wheat, barley, grapes, fig, pomegranates, oil-yielding olives and [date] honey.”
Learn more about the meaning of Tu B’Shevat, and some of the health and healing properties of the fruits mentioned in Deuteronomy: “wheat, barley, grapes, fig, pomegranates, oil-yielding olives and [date] honey.”
The number seven represents the cycle of creation; the number eight represents the "circumference" -- that which lies beyond the perimeter of time and space. This is why the Divine Presence came to dwell in the Israelite camp on the eighth day. This is also alluded to in the saying of our sages (Talmud, Erchin 13b) that "The lyre of Moshiach has eight strings"
— Keli Yakar
Print Magazine
Looking at your world from Above, all is good.
Looking at your world from within, things don’t always look so nice.
Until you connect your world below to the world above. Then the goodness flows downward without distortion.
How do you make that connection? By clinging tightly above.
By putting all your trust in G‑d.
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