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Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

This is an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the Jewish New Year’s Day for Trees, Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot, popularly referred to by the day it falls on the Jewish religious calendar, ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט (Tu biShvat), the 15th day of the month of Shəvat.

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קרובות לראש שנה לאילנות | Ḳerovot for Tu biShvat, by Yehudah ben R’ Hillel haLevi (ca. 11th c.)

Ḳerovot for Tu biShvat, a celebration of Divine verdancy, which namedrops a stunning array of flora from throughout the land of Israel. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

Tags: 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, עמידה amidah, Cairo Geniza, ethnobotany, קרובות ḳerovot, Nusaḥ Erets Yisrael, פיוטים piyyutim, Public Amidah

Contributor(s): Yehudah ben Hillel haLevi, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

קִדּוּשׁ שֶׁל שִׁחְרוּר עַל שַׁבָּת ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | Shabbat Ḳiddush of Liberation for Shabbat Tu biShvat, by Mark X. Jacobs (1993)

We call to sukkat shalom, the shelter of peace, all of our various selves To rest from the contortion of social life and the demands of others. We liberate ourselves and each other from roles and titles labels and closets positions and pretendings internalized oppressions and oppressive projections hierarchies and competition. . . .

Categories: Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, קידוש ḳiddush, North America, Teva Learning Center

Contributor(s): Mark X. Jacobs

Raising the Olive Branch in Solidarity with Palestinian Olive Farmers: A Tu biShvat Seder supplement by Rabbi Arik Ascherman (2010)

A Tu biShvat seder supplement recognizing the Israeli-Jewish settler violence and land theft under the State of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank. . . .

Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid, English vernacular prayer, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Israeli-Jewish settler violence, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, land theft, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Needing Translation (into Hebrew), olive trees, فلسطين Filasṭīn Palestine

Contributor(s): Arik Ascherman

תפלה על פרי אדמה | A Prayer for the Earth, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

God of all spirit, all directions, all winds You have placed in our hands power unlike any since the world began to overturn the orders of creation. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Melakhim, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Rosh haShanah la-Behemah, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), 🌐 Earth Day (22 April), Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., earth, eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, North America

Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and Neohasid [dot] org

תְּפִלָּה לָעֵצִים עַל ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | Prayer for the Trees of Erets Yisrael on Tu Bishvat, by Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel (2011)

In the wake of the continued uprooting of fruit trees and human settlements in the Land of Israel, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights shared the following petitionary prayer. . . .

Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, 🇮🇱 Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day), Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), Planting

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecumenical prayers, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Progressive Zionism, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Anonymous Author(s) and T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

תְּפִילַּת ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | The Prayer for Tu biShvat from the Seder Pri Ets Hadar, adapted by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

This prayer for Tu biShvat, derived from the prayer included with the seder for Tu biShvat, the Pri Ets Hadar, are based on the Ḳabbalah of the four worlds and the ancient idea that everything physical is an image of the spiritual. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, four worlds, Lurianic Kabbalah, North America, school of the ARI z"l

Contributor(s): David Seidenberg (translation) and Neohasid [dot] org

Meditation on the World of Yetsirah for the Tu biShvat Seder, by Ben Murane

The Tu Bishvat seder is a metaphor. But usually we use metaphor in our daily lives to accomplish, persuade, inspire or explain. There is something we’re bending metaphor to accomplish. This meditation is an exercise in free-thinking. Here, just play with metaphor for the sake of expressing and exploring your emotional state, history, anticipations and apprehensions. Each of the quotations from the Torah or rabbinical writings below represents an emotion. After we say the blessing over the olives, read the quotations, pick one (or more) that resonate, and play with the metaphor to reach a deeper understanding of yourself and others. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., four worlds, neo-lurianic, North America, olive trees, olives

Contributor(s): Ben Murane

📄 סֵדֶר ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | On Sweet Fruit and Deep Mysteries: Kabbalistic and Midrashic Texts to Sweeten your Tu Bishvat Seder, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)

From [the Holy One’s] form/to’ar the constellations are shimmering, and God’s form projects the exalted ones. And Her crown blazes [with] the mighty, and His garment flows with the precious. And all the trees will rejoice in the word, and the plants will exult in His rejoicing, and His words shall drop as perfumes, flowing forth flames of fire, giving joy to those who search them, and quiet to those who fulfill them. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), Seder Leil Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., eco-conscious, ecoḥasid, four worlds, neo-lurianic, North America, sourcesheet

Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and Neohasid [dot] org

Rosh Ḥodesh Shevat, a prayer-poem by Trisha Arlin

This is the month when we tell the story Of the escape from the narrow place. This is the month of Shabbat Shirah, When we sing the song of liberation. We give thanks for freedom. This is the month when we talk of wine and nuts and fruit, The New Year of the Trees. This is the month of Tu Bishvat When we eat the gifts of our planet. We give thanks to the earth. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), Rosh Ḥodesh Shəvat (שְׁבָט)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, שבת שירה shabbat shirah

Contributor(s): Trisha Arlin

ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | Rebirthing the Tree(s) of Life: Four Teachings for the Four Worlds of Tu BiShvat/Yah BiShvat by Arthur Waskow

The four teachings above are connected with the Four Worlds that the kabbalists saw as the architecture of the universe. When the Kabbalistic community of Tz’fat created the Seder for Tu BiShvat/ Yah BiShvat, they unfolded these Four Worlds in four cups of wine and four sorts of fruit and nuts (one sort so ethereal it was invisible and untouchable). This year, the full moon of Shvat will fall on Shabbat Shira itself, January 24-25. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., four worlds, neo-lurianic, North America, Renewal, Yah Bishvat

Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center

A Tree Comes of Age, an essay on the awakening of the trees during the month of Sh’vat by Rabbi Dr. Daniel Sperber

Tu Bishvat is sometimes referred to as the day in which the sap begins to rise in the trees. From where does this teaching arise? “A Tree Comes of Age” by Rabbi Dr. Sperber was originally given as a lecture on Parashat Yitro 5769/ February 14, 2009 and published on Bar-Ilan University’s Parashat Hashavua Study Center’s website, here. We have formatted the essay adding a number of the sourcetexts referred to in the lecture and all referenced citations. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat), Rosh Ḥodesh Shəvat (שְׁבָט)

Tags: sap, saraf

Contributor(s): Daniel Sperber, Hai Ben Sherira Gaon and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּפִלָּה לַעֲצֵי הַיַּעַר עַל ט״וּ בִּשְׁבָט | Prayer for the Trees of the Forest on Tu biShvat, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

A Tu biShvat prayer for the trees of the land of Israel and the world over, that they not be victims of deforestation. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Clean Air, deforestation, eco-conscious, Forests, North America, Trees

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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