Holidays
Tu b’Shvat Hebrew Coloring Page – Tu b’Shvat
Friday, January 1st, 2016Make your wishes and keep an eye out for 2 trees embracing on this special holiday!
Tu b’Shvat Hebrew Coloring Page – Eitz
Friday, January 1st, 2016Color in the trees. Now, go find a tree and give it a hug!
Tu b’Shvat Hebrew Coloring Page – Tu b’Shvat Seder
Friday, January 1st, 2016Enjoy your Tu b’Shvat Seder!
Tu b’Shvat Hebrew Coloring Page – Shivat haMinim 7 special foods
Friday, January 1st, 2016Check out these seven special foods found in Israel. How many have you tried this year?
Tu B’Shvat Birthday Cake
Friday, January 1st, 2016Make a Tu B’Shvat Tree Birthday Cake!
Using your favorite cake or cookie dough recipe, spread the batter onto a 11 X 14 cookie sheet (one without sides so that the cookie can be slipped off onto a board).
After baking, while the dough is still slightly warm…
Cut the basic shape of a tree out of the [...]
Bal Tashchit: The Three Rs
Friday, January 1st, 2016To till and to tend: one of the first mitzvot given to us by God in the Torah. Truly, we are the caretakers of this earth and of all the living things. (Including each other! but that’s for another day…) Bal Tashchit is the mitzvah that says, Do Not Destroy/Waste. It [...]
Tu B’Shvat Recipes
Friday, January 1st, 2016From, “Taste of Tradition” by Ruth Sirkis
Ruth, considered to be ‘the Julia Child of Israel” tells us, Tu B’Shvat is all about “going on a nature kick.” In Israel, “meadows, orchards and vineyards begin to blossom.” So, “foods of the holiday are related to nature and trees as well. It is traditional to [...]
A Tree’s New Year Resolution
Friday, January 1st, 2016by Shlomo Yaffe
used with permission
Chabad.org
Tu B’Shvat –the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shvat — is known as the “New Year for Trees.” Naturally this would be a time for trees to engage in soul-searching the way people do on Rosh Hashanah. Here is a tree’s New Year Checklist:
Did I shelter the seedlings [...]
Resources on the Environment and for Tu B’Shvat
Friday, January 1st, 2016 www.Rockinoutgreen.com has several resource pages for both children and adults!
Check out COEJL’s page on Tu B’Shvat packed with learning about the environment and it’s connection to Judaism. You’ll also find a beautiful Tu B’Shvat Seder here.
Read Tu B’Shvat articles at the Shalom Center by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, a master teacher, author, and [...]
The Torah compared to a Fig Tree
Friday, January 1st, 2016Why is the Torah compared to a fig tree? The fruit of most trees – the olive tree, the vine, and the palm tree – is collected all at once, while that of the fig tree is collected a bit at a time. So, too, regarding the Torah. Today a person learns [...]
