Sunday, February 8, 2009

Tu B'Shvat Higiah


(remember the song... tu b'shvat higiah, chag la'ilanot...)

i got an email this morning from a NMF living in israel who told me how she was planning to have a tu b'shvat seder tonite with her husband and some friends. they were going to have 15 different fruits for the 15 shir hama'alos perakim of tehillim. i thought- such a nice idea. [the past few years, i've been in israel for tu b'shvat: last year i was at a chassidish tish where all the chassidim danced and sang as the new fruits were eaten by the rebbe. that was so nice! the year before last year, i went for shabbos (in sem) to a kiruv place where they were having a friday night dinner and tu b'shvat seder. that was so cool and enlightening because the people there were not-yet-religious and were asking me and my friend all kinds of questions about Judaism, etc.] so i decided where else to look for information about how to do a tu b'shvat seder than on the internet? so i put it into ask.com and arrived at this page.
i set up the table and everything and everyone in my family sat down to a tu b'shvat seder. it was really nice and really meaningful. (here's a pic)
you still have time.... until tomorrow night! so go for it!! :)

5 comments:

Jewish Side of Babysitter said...

I remember that song.

I didn't know there were 15 types of fruits. But I like tasting different fruits on tu beshvat, its usually dried fruits.

funny that you looked on the internet, lol. I would have thought you would have checked aish or some other Jewish site. I didn't know ask.com would have the answer.

that's great it was meaningful and nice "seder" looks colorful!

tembow said...

well if you checked out the link, it goes to aish.com
LOL

Something Different said...

I am too busy going on a date for this stuff.
Not.
LOL.

tembow said...

lol

nmf #7 said...

Wow- really special that you did that! Hope you enjoyed.

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