Trees! Trees! Trees!
On this Jewish Holiday it is traditional to plant trees.
Tu Bishvat
The Hebrew phase for the Seven Species.
Shivat Haminim שבעת המינים
This fruit has hundreds of tiny red seeds and is said to have inspired the design on the robes of the Temple's High Priest.
Pomegranates
This Holiday that is sometimes called the Birthday of the Trees is celebrated on the 15th day of the Month of Shevat.
Tu Bishvat
This Shel Silverstein story is about an apple tree & its friend who grows from child to adult.
THE GIVING TREE
A Hebrew word for tree, also your teacher's name.
אילן
The Hebrew word for Pomegranates.
Remonim רִמּוֹנִים
These are one of our most sacred fruits, used to make Shabbat and other holidays feel special. Just like the Passover Seder, the Tu B'shvat Seder revolves around four cups of wine or juice made from this fruit.
Grapes
This holiday comes every week.
Shabbat
The world's largest rain forest is found in this river basin.
THE AMAZON
The Torah is sometimes referred to by this tree phrase.
Tree of Life עֵץ חַיִּים
The Hebrew word for Olives
זֵיתִים
In biblical times a sweet syrup, like honey, was made from this fruit. Israel is called the land of milk and honey, but the honey being referenced is ____ honey, not bee honey.
Dates
On This Holiday we read from the end and the beginning of the Torah.
Simchat Torah
Brought over from Australia blue gum is the USA's most common variety of this tree.
EUCALYPTUS
In Deuteronomy 20:19-20 it teaches us that we we go to war we must not destroy any of this category of tree.
Fruit Trees or Food yielding Trees
The Hebrew word for Grapes
עֲנָבִֽים
The Hebrew name for Pomegranates and also what we call the fancy decorations placed on each of the Torah Etzeem (wood holders).
Remonim רִמּוֹנִים
The names of the four species that we bring together on the holiday of sukkot.
Etrog אֶתְרוֹג a yellow citrus fruit, one of the four species we gather together and rejoice with on Sukkot.
Lulav לולב a palm branch, one of the four species we gather together and rejoice with on Sukkot. Also used to refer to the item you get when you put the palm, the myrtle and the willow together. (don’t really like the phasing on this one. Could use fixing)
Hadass הדס a branch of the myrtle tree, one of the four species we gather together and rejoice with on Sukkot.
Aravah ערבה branch of the willow tree, one of the four species we gather together and rejoice with on Sukkot.
It's the Japanese art of creating dwarf trees.
BONSAI
In the creation story we read at the start of the Torah, It was on this day that God created fruit trees.
Third Day.
The Hebrew word for dates.
תְּמָרִים
The names of all the Seven Species.
Wheat, Barley, Figs, Pomegranates, Olives, Dates, and Grapes.
The number of cups of wine or grape juice that we drink at a Tu Bishvat Seder (Hint it is the same number as the Passover Seder)
Four
This tree is named after a Biblical person that not only can be found in the Torah, but also gives his name to the first book of the second section of the Tanakh.
JOSHUA TREE