Tu B’Shvat, Happy New Year for trees
Day 15 on the Hebrew calendar, Jan. 30 this year, is Tu B’shvat, the Jewish New Year for Trees.
From Chabad.org:
This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.
We mark the day of Tu B’Shvat by eating fruit, particularly from the kinds that are singled out by the Torah in its praise of the bounty of the Holy Land: grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates. On this day we remember that “Man is a tree of the field” (Deuteronomy 20:19) and reflect on the lessons we can derive from our botanical analogue.
–Toshio Suzuki
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