Guide to Tu bishvat
Importance in Jewish year cycle:
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3. As an aside to Tu be-av, it is mentioned that teachers and their pupils have a little drink at this occasion and also on Tu bishvat. Also, some mediæval sources mention the idea of eating fruits, certainly a good idea in Europe's brumal cold. (back to text)
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1. Numbers may be rounded for convenience. (back to text)
2. Some Poilishe have started skipping tachnun recently, I hear. And in the improbable case that you use a different tune for Borchu on Rôsh chôdesh, you might use the same tune for Tu bishvat at shachres. (back to text)3. As an aside to Tu be-av, it is mentioned that teachers and their pupils have a little drink at this occasion and also on Tu bishvat. Also, some mediæval sources mention the idea of eating fruits, certainly a good idea in Europe's brumal cold. (back to text)
posted by Phillip Minden | 2/11/2006 05:24:00 PM
8 Comments:
I shall be a good boy, and not rant about Refomers, nationalists, and chasidists
But what about the Hippies? Hippies love Tu Bishvat! And we love Hippies... or at least, I do...
Brumal cold
Brumal?
Sounds latinate, ober voss iz doch die meinung?
Doesn't matter, actually. It has a ring to it, weather (sic) neologism or not. I want to use it, I dearly want to use it.
For 'hassidim and religious-zionists Tu biShvat is a beautiful occasion to celebrate eretz-yisrael.
My daughters enjoyed the seder and having a beautiful certificate about trees planted in their name in Hebron.
By the way, I cannot understand most of your blog because it is written in an obscure european dialect.
'akhla 'habibi !
Q. e. d.
But seriously: I have nothing against celebrating EY, or even the Israeli state in many matters. Only I don't need to invent holidays, associate with European 19th-century-style nationalism or the like, and sell it as traditionally Jewish.
And about this obscure European dialect - huh? Please explain, I'm curio(u)s.
the siddur Tfilat Yosef, which follows the psak of the Mishne Brure, says not to say tachanun on 15 Shvat.
the siddur Tfilat Yosef, which follows the psak of the Mishne Brure, says not to say tachanun on 15 Shvat.
Yes, that's the newer Eastern European minneg, maybe influenced by kabbalists.
Um, Raf Hamburger's lu(w)aH says not to say taHnun on the morning of 15 Shevot, doesn't it?
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