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You may use wine during an holiday, and if you love drinking wine, then you have probably asked yourself many times about what you should do with the wine cork. You can actually use wine cork in a very creative way to make ornaments for Tu b'Shevat tree ...

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Wool tree decoration for Tu b'Shevat

In 2018, the "birthday of the trees" begins at sundown on Tuesday, Jan. 30
Tu B’Shevat or the “birthday” of all fruit trees, is a minor festival. The name is Hebrew for the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat.
In ancient times, Tu B’Shevat was merely a date on the calendar that helped Jewish farmers establish exactly when they should bring their fourth-year produce of fruit from recently planted trees to the Temple as first-fruit offerings.
In the 16th century, the Kabbalists of Tzfat in the Land of Israel created a new ritual to celebrate Tu B’Shevat called the Feast of Fruits. Modeled on the Passover seder, participants would read selections from the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic literature, and would eat fruits and nuts traditionally associated with the land of Israel. The Kabbalists also gave a prominent place to almonds in the Tu B’Shevat seder , since the almond trees were believed to be the first of all trees in Israel to blossom. Carob, also known as bokser or St. John’s bread, became another popular fruit to eat on Tu B’Shevat, since it could survive the long trip from Israel to Jewish communities in Europe. Participants in the kabbalistic seder would also drink four cups of wine: white wine (to symbolize winter), white with some red (a harbinger of the coming of spring); red with some white (early spring) and finally all red (spring and summer).
Complete with biblical and rabbinic readings, these kabbalists produced a Tu B’Shevat Haggadah in 1753 called “Pri Etz Hadar” or “Fruit of the Goodly Tree.”

Wool tree

The Month of Shevat: Elevating Eating & Tu b'Shevat

Tu B'Shevat tree decoration

Why do trees celebrate their New Year so much later than ours? It has to do with the rainy season in Israel, which commences with the festival of Sukkot. It takes four months for the rains to saturate the soil, nurture the trees and coax them into producing fruit. This is important to know if you are planning to give your tithes of fruits, as is done in the Land of Israel, because the required tithes vary from year to year. It’s also important if you are a tree and looking for something to celebrate.

The wool-wrapped copper branches and felt leaves on the textured wooden bases of our delicate saplings evoke foliage with colors in burgundy, brown, and dark honey and grey. Bendable copper  in branches and leaves allows for graceful shaping of natural forms. Available in two heights. Mounted on solid wood blocks.

Tu B'Shevat Customs .

Tress themed homedecorations

The 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar, celebrated this year on Saturday, February 11, 2017,is the day that marks the beginning of a “new year” for trees. This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.
We mark the 15th of Shevat by eating fruit, particularly from the kinds that are singled out by the Torah in its praise of the bounty of the Holy Land: grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates. On this day we remember that “man is a tree of the field”

 It takes approximately four months for the rains of the new year to saturate the soil and trees, and produce fruit

Trees cards for Tu b'Shevat

Books about trees

Paper bags for fruits

Paper bags with hand-drawn trees

This motivational illustration book is designed to offer artists, designers and doodlers a unique collection of fun and sophisticated exercises. Each spread features 20 illustrations of a single item, such as a tree, tulip, shell, owl, peacock feather, mushroom, cloud or berry.

20 Ways to Draw a Tree

 

Small Olive trees

Small olive wood trees

Small olive trees with the trunk made of cork and real olive branches to shape the trees. As base the lid of a jar of jam and some pine cones.

Felt trees for Tu b'Shevat

Felt trees

Felt festively decorated trees for Tu B'Shevat. Homemade with scraps of green felt, twigs and jute.

Winter tree Tu b'Shevat decoration

Winter tree

Tu b'Shevat trees ideas

Tu B'Shevat home Trees

Beginning Tu b'Shevat crafts

Pinecones tree

Like the trees in the depth of winter, we have the power to emerge from darkness and blossom.

Homemade tree made with silver painted pinecones and red berries glued to a cardboard cone on a wood-base

Tu B’Shevat, the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar, celebrated this year on Thursday, February 4, 2015, is the day that marks the beginning of a “new year” for trees. This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.
Legally, the “new year” for trees relates to the various tithes that are separated from produce grown in the Holy Land. These tithes differ from year to year in the seven-year shemittah cycle; the point at which a budding fruit is considered to belong to the next year of the cycle is the 15th of Shevat.