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Celebrating Tu B'Shvat 5772: The New Year of the Trees

Discover the significance of Tu B'Shvat, the 15th of Shvat, the new year for trees, and learn how to celebrate through planting trees, eating fruits, and holding a Tu B'Shvat Seder. Explore the traditions and symbolism of this special Jewish holiday.

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Celebrating Tu B'Shvat 5772: The New Year of the Trees

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  1. Tu B’Shvat

  2. When Is It? • This Year (5772 / 2011-2012),Tu B'Shvat, the New Year of the Trees, falls on Wednesday, February 8, 2012. • As all Jewish Holidays do, Tu B'Shvat begins sundown and ends at nightfall

  3. What Is It? 15 טו • Shvat is the name of the month when the holiday is celebrated • "Tu" is the way to say the number 15 when it is spelled out (the letter "ט" and the letter "ו") • Tu B’Shvat is on the 15thday of Shevat • It is the new year for the trees

  4. Four New Years:There are four new years on the Jewish Calendar • The first of Elul: the beginning of the tax year for animals • Rosh Hashana (the first of Tishrei): a religious and spiritual beginning • The first of Nisan: the "first month" in the Torah,freedom for the Jews when they left Egypt • Tu B’Shvat: the new year for trees, in the time of the Torah, the beginning of the tax year for fruits and vegetables

  5. Why in Shvat? • By this time year, most of Israel’s rainfall for the year has already fallen • The trees have already started to grow • This is the time when fruits begin forming on the trees • In Israel, the 15th of Shvat is the day when new sap starts to rise in the trees

  6. How Do We Celebrate? • Plant a tree • Eat fruits and nuts that grow on trees (especially one that grow in Israel) • Have a Tu B’Shvat Seder • Eat a new fruit (that we have not eaten this year) so we can say Shehechiyanu

  7. Tu B’Shvat Seder • One tradition is to eat twenty types of fruit and drink four cups of wine (or grape juice) • These fruits can be divided into three groups: • fruits with a peel and seeds you can eat (like grapes and figs) • fruits with a peel you can eat but an pit you cannot eat (like olives and dates) • fruits with peel you cannot eat, and only the inside is eaten (like pomegranates and nuts)

  8. The Seven Species: (As listed in the Torah)

  9. 1. Chitah (wheat)

  10. 2. Se'orah (barley)

  11. 3. Gefen (grapes)

  12. 4. Te'enah (fig)

  13. 5. Rimon (pomegranate)

  14. 6. Zayit (olive)

  15. 7. Tamar (date)

  16. Happy Tu B’Shvat!

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