WHAT IS TU B’SHVAT?
This Jewish holiday is known as the New Year for what?
What are trees?
The Torah famously compares human beings to this natural object.
What is a tree?
These fruits are traditionally eaten on Tu B’Shvat.
What are fruits from the Land of Israel?
This special Tu B’Shvat meal was created by Kabbalists.
What is the Tu B’Shvat Seder?
Tu B’Shvat is often called the Jewish version of this modern observance.
What is Earth Day?
Tu B’Shvat falls on this numbered day of the Hebrew month of Shvat.
What is the 15th day?
This Torah phrase means “a tree of life.”
What is Etz Chaim?
How many species are included in the Seven Species?
What is seven?
How many cups of wine are traditionally used in the Seder?
What are four cups?
This organization popularized tree planting on Tu B’Shvat.
What is the Jewish National Fund (JNF)?
This ancient Jewish text first mentions Tu B’Shvat.
What is the Mishnah?
This book of the Torah contains the phrase “tree of the field.”
What is Deuteronomy?
This sweet fruit from the Seven Species grows on palm trees.
What are dates?
The Seder was developed in this city in the 1500s.
What is Safed (Tzfat)?
This environmental value is strongly connected to Tu B’Shvat today.
What is sustainability?
Tu B’Shvat is considered this type of holiday rather than a biblical one.
What is a rabbinic holiday?
In Jewish thought, trees symbolize life, wisdom, and this quality.
What is growth?
This Seven Species fruit produces oil used for food and rituals.
What are olives?
The fruits eaten represent different levels of this concept.
What is spiritual development?
Tu B’Shvat usually falls during this season.
What is winter?
Tu B’Shvat originally helped determine this agricultural rule.
What is the age of fruit trees for tithes?
Cutting down fruit trees unnecessarily violates this Torah principle.
What is Bal Tashchit?
Historically, this type of fruit was most common on Tu B’Shvat outside Israel.
What are dried fruits?
This mystical idea refers to repairing the world
What is Tikkun?
The central modern message of Tu B’Shvat is caring for this shared resource.
What is the Earth?