Tu B'shvat - Customs, Links

Active Poster Joined: Dec 16 2004 Posts: 43

Just wondering what your plans are for Tu B'shvat? Do you do anything special with the kids? Any good recipes? We buy a few fruits of Eretz Yisroel (dates, figs. etc..) and make shecheyanu...any other ideas?

Posted: Thu, Jan 20 2005, 4:25 pm Post subject:

My parents' minhag is to have 15 fruits, including a shehechiyanu and the shivas haminim, and to say the 15 Shir Hamaalos. They say a perek and eat a fruit, say a perek and eat a fruit, etc.

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

wow, thats interesting!

Posted: Thu, Jan 20 2005, 4:59 pm Post subject:

It's a quasi-Yekkish minhag. One year I was in EY on Tu Bishvat which came out on Shabbos. I stayed at friends of my sister who also had that minhag, but more elaborately. They had a table filled with fruits and we sat all Shabbos afternoon, eating fruits, saying Shir Hamaalos and speaking about kedushas EY. It was so beautiful!

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 20 2004 Posts: 17151

stuff to read:

http://www.kabbalaonline.org/holydays/tubishvat/

http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=3264

http://www.ascentofsafed.com/NewAscentOfSafed/WhatsNewFrame.html

Posted: Mon, Jan 24 2005, 12:33 pm Post subject:

http://www.aish.com/a/Tu_Bshvat.asp

Check this out. It is a really nice thing to watch
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Platinum Member Joined: Sep 20 2004 Posts: 17151

it IS a nice thing to watch, however ... (here comes the killjoy), there's nothing about doing what G-d says to do, I.e. mitzvos, whether 613 for Jews or 7 for gentiles, just a message to enjoy the world and take care of it ... could have been made by environmentalists with a religious bent ...

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I don't think the video was ment to do that

if it gets people curious enough to click onn the link, they will learn the rest

a religious come-on will turn some people off.

Active Poster Joined: Dec 16 2004 Posts: 43

I once heard that you're supposed to eat the shivas haminim in a certain order...do any of you do that and what is the order?

Posted: Tue, Jan 25 2005, 5:20 am Post subject:

You eat them in the order of their closeness to the word "eretz" in the pasuk that speaks of the 7 minim: "Eretz chita u'seora vigefen ute'ena virimon, eretz zeis shemen udvash (temorim)". The order is as follows:
olives
dates
grapes/raisins
figs
pomegranate

Posted: Tue, Jan 25 2005, 9:01 am Post subject:

Hag sameah to all! What a yummy hag it is Laughing

Posted: Sun, Feb 05 2006, 11:07 am Post subject: re: Tu B'shvat

What do you say to all the Tu B'shvat sales? Advertising gifts to give for this Yom Tov. When I was young Scratching Head

this Yom Tov was not sooo commercialized.

Gold Member Joined: May 18 2005 Posts: 1254

Has anyone ever heard of this? The Mishpacha had an article about it and it is the first time I have heard of this. They said it is a chassidish minhag. Do you do it at home or only with a Rebbe?
What other Tu Beshvat minhagim do you have aside from eating fruit?
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Posted: Sun, Feb 12 2006, 1:04 pm Post subject:

We used to make one! It's a Sefardi thing, as far as I know, and it's very beautiful.

Gold Member Joined: Jan 28 2006 Posts: 1341

IT's just a minhag and you some people have a tubeshvat seder.

Posted: Sun, Feb 12 2006, 8:01 pm Post subject: re: Tu Beshvat Seder ~ Customs

My daughters school came up with a new custom! No School on Tu Beshvat! So will be busy entertaining her tomorrow!

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 10 2005 Posts: 3401

so funny - I also never heard of it b4 I read the mishpacha article! my dh just heard of it from an e-mail he got from shemayisrael.com. I think it is a sfardi minhag.

Posted: Sun, Feb 12 2006, 8:20 pm Post subject: re: Tu Beshvat Seder ~ Customs

it's kabbalistic

Posted: Mon, Feb 13 2006, 6:47 am Post subject:

I�m gonna have a fruit party with my dh and the kids have one in school.

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

got this in my email:

carob-bukser - is usually infested and difficult to inspect

dates - American grown usually do not need to be inspected. If you're checking them, slice lengthwise, spread apart and open. If webbing or seedy substance is seen, worms may be present

figs - Smyrna or California - often infested with the fig wasp. Cut and force open inside out.
wasp will appear blackish in contrast to the brownish fig meat and seeds

hope you dont find anything! Razz