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Tag: Tu Bi’Shvat

Hillel and Shammai’s Dispute about the Fruit Tree’s New Year

The first of Shevat is the New Year for trees, says the School of Shammai. Beth Hillel disputes this and rules that it falls on the fifteenth of the month.
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A Tribute to Wheat for Tu B’Shvat

It is customary to eat fruits in celebration of Tu B’Shvat, and to admire each fruit and speak its praises before you eat it. A Still Small Voice presents a tribute to wheat. 
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A Tribute to Wine for Tu B’Shvat 2013 / 5773

The path that grapes traverse in their odyssey of becoming wine parallels our cosmic journey of expanding consciousness.
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Tu B’Shvat, 5772 / 2012 by Sarah Yehudit Schneider

At a Tu b’Shvat seder How do you decide which fruit to make the focus of your brocha, for only one out of all gets the privilege?
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Tu B’Shvat 5771 / 2011

The Tree of Life has as many fruits as there are creatures (and moments) in the world. The Shekhina is its gardener and she daily plucks its ripened yield.
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Tu B’Shvat: The New Year for Fruit Trees

Tu B’Shvat is the New Year’s day for fruit trees but it is important to note that this is not their day of judgment—that occurs months later on the holiday of Shavuot.
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A Short Torah on Eating, 5769 / 2009

Every bit of food has a spark of consciousness that we absorb from eating it.
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Tu B’Shvat, 5767 / 2007

Although bringing tikun to eating is a practice and awareness that we should bring to every meal, the Tu B’Shvat meal is an especially propitious opportunity to do this work.
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