Tu B'shevat Basics
This holiday is known as the Jewish New Year for these.
What are trees?
The Torah compares people to this plant.
What is a tree?
Tu B’Shevat is strongly connected to this country.
What is Israel?
People often eat this type of food on Tu B’Shevat.
What is fruit?
Tu B’Shevat usually falls during this season.
What is winter?
Tu B’Shevat takes place on this day of the Hebrew month of Shevat.
What is the 15th?
“Etz Chaim” means this in English.
What is Tree of Life?
This organization plants trees in Israel.
What is the Jewish National Fund (JNF)?
A special symbolic meal sometimes held on Tu B’Shevat is called a ___.
What is a seder?
This tree is often the first to bloom in Israel.
What is the almond tree?
“Tu” comes from these two Hebrew letters.
What are Tet and Vav?
This commandment forbids destroying trees unnecessarily.
What is Bal Tashchit?
These are the Seven Species mentioned in the Torah.
What are wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates?
Dried fruits were popular because they were easy to do this.
What is store?
This snack is commonly eaten on Tu B’Shevat and cracked open.
What are nuts?
This Jewish text is the first to mention Tu B’Shevat.
What is the Mishnah?
This book of the Torah says, “For a person is like the tree of the field.”
What is Deuteronomy?
Many trees in Israel begin to do this around Tu B’Shevat.
What is blooming?
Some people eat fruits in a certain order to represent this idea.
What is spiritual growth?
Trees need these underground to survive.
What are roots?
Tu B’Shevat was originally used to calculate this obligation on fruit.
What is tithing (ma’aser)?
Trees in Judaism often symbolize this idea.
What is growth?
Modern Tu B’Shevat focuses on protecting this.
What is the environment?
A common Tu B’Shevat activity involves planting these.
What are trees?
Without water, trees cannot do this.
What is grow?