General
The "Tu" in Tu B'Shevat stands for this day in the month of Shevat.
What is 15?
What does Shivat Haminim mean?
The 7 species that are plentiful in Israel.
What is one important part of celebrating Tu B'Shevat?
Eating fruit connect with Israel
What city in Israel had the first Tu B'Shevat Seder?
Tzefat
Shivat HaMinim are 5 fruits and two other things.
What are wheat and barley?
Many Israelis do this on Tu B'Shevat.
What is plant trees?
2,000 years ago, Tu B'Shevat marked the beginning of the year for this.
What is agricultural donations?
What are the 5 fruits in Shivat Haminim?
Grapes, figs, pomegranates, figs, and dates.
This organization plants trees in Israel
Jewish National Fund (JNF)
When do we shehehiyanu over these fruits?
When we have not eaten yet it during the year.
Why is Tu B'Shevat considered a new year?
Because it marks the forming of fruit on the trees and start of spring.
A pizza topping that is one of Shivat HaMinim.
What are olives?
What story in the Torah do we read around Tu B'Shevat?
Bonus point: What is the name of the Shabbat right before Tu B'Shevat?
The story of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea.
Bonus points: Shabbat Shira
You can make honey from this item in the Shivat HaMinim.
What are dates?
Who is the founder of modern Zionism who first inspired young Jews to plant trees in 1898?
Theodor Herzl?
We eat food made of this first at the Tu B'Shevat Seder.
What is food made of wheat?