Tu B'Shevat
What is 15?
The number of species that were special in the land of Israel.
What is Seven?
What is the Tree of Knowledge?
This weekly day of rest applies not only to people but also to animals and the land.
What is Shabbat?
Trees make their own food using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water in a process called this.
What is photosynthesis?
Tu B'Shevat is mentioned in this Rabbinic book as one of the four Jewish New Years.
What is the Mishna?
This specie is sometimes referred to as Devash because it can be made into honey.
What is Tamar or Date?
The dove returned to the ark with a leaf from this tree.
What is an olive tree?
The Torah requires the land of Israel to stop farming after this number of years.
What is six? (The land rests on the 7th seventh year).
Scientists use these to learn a tree’s age and past climate conditions.
In the 16th century Kabbalists in Tsfat started the tradition of eating the special fruits at this special meal.
What is a seder?
The 7 species of Ancient Israel mentioned in the Torah
What are Pomegranate, Date, Fig, Wheat, Barley, Grapes, olives?
Eating from this tree would grant eternal life in the Garden of Eden.
What is the Tree of Life?
According to the Torah this type of trees cannot be cut down during war time.
What are fruit trees?
Trees that lose their leaves in fall to save energy are called this type.
Deciduous Trees
In Ancient Israel fruit could only be eaten after waiting this amount of time.
What is after 5 years?
Number of seeds that are said to be in a pomegranate?
What is 613?
This tree was on fire but not consumed when God spoke to Moses.
Burning Bush
Every seven years the Torah requires the land of Israel to rest by stopping farming, promoting soil health and sustainability.
What is Shmita?
Acorns are the seeds of this kind of tree.
What is an oak tree
Tu B'Shevat is one of the four New Years that marks this beginning in Ancient Israel.
What is the beginning of the beginning of a new agricultural year?
What are Tu B'shevat, Sukkot and Shavuot?
Abraham planted this tree in Beersheba and called on God’s name there.
What is the tamarisk tree?
The law Shiluach HaKen, which encourages compassion for animals.
What is shooing a mother away from the nest before taking her child?
This famous tree in Israel is the first to bloom in the Spring.
What is a Shkediah?