Join us for a delightful, sensory and spiritual walk at our Tu B'Shevat Seder on Saturday January 26 at 1PM

Give your senses and and your neshama a chance to awaken.

Suggested donation per person for attendance:

Adults: $8
Kids: free

We will also accept donations to plant trees at the end of the shmita year ($18 each)

Note: You can donate to plant as many trees as you like. Trees will not be planted by the JNF until after Rosh Hashana since this is a shmitta year and planting is not allowed until 5769. The money will accrue with JNF and hopefully plant more trees! n

No one will be turned away from experiencing a feast of the senses and the season due to lack of funds. Give what you are able.

Come and experience the rising of the sap, the life, within yourself.

Celebration for the New Year for Trees

Tu Bishvat was originally the beginning of the "legal year" for counting the fruit crop for tithes. The Talmud gives the reason that most of the early rains have fallen by this date. It may be thought of as corresponding to one of the earliest times at which sap would rise in the trees in ancient Israel.

Redemption

Tu BeShvat anticipates the ultimate redemption, the return to the Garden of Eden. It anticipates the redemption of the whole world, when we will repair the mistake of Adam and eve, and eat, this time, fruit from the Tree of Life. In that day, the revelation of Godliness in all of Nature will be palpable. Everone will be a prophet and a mystic with direct experience of God, and all flesh will see the Unity of Hashem.

Enter the Garden

In The Garden, Adam Harishon (the first man) ate fruit and was satisfied from the trees of Pardes, the orchard. There, trees blossomed in an endless springtime season. Sustenance was found with the extension of an arm. Adam plucked sweetbread from leafy branches and lived in a state of total sheleimut-wholeness.

This was life as it was before man took from the forbidden tree, before exile, nakedness, thorns and the sweat of the brow - before death. In the beginning, Adam had been placed as a gardener east of Eden (Bereishit 2:15). He knew every tree of the field, including the location of the Tree of Life, his antidote and hope. Had Hashem not placed two obstructing angels before his path, Adam would have undoubtedly raced to its branches.

The text of our Tu BeShvat Seder is called a "tikkun." The word means correction and reflects the intended purpose of the seder. Through the ingesting of symbolic foods, the sensitive observer intends to connect to, and participate in, a process of spiritual repair, opening the gates to the Tree of Life.

Adam Hasheini (the second man). He is the True Tzaddik, performing acts of Tikkun. The "second Adam" is able to uncover the path to Gan Eden. Through out the pages of our Besorot, Yeshua retraces the steps of Adam, reconnecting humanity to its source.