Tu Bi’Shevat (literally the 15th day of the Jewish month of Shevat) celebrates the rebirth of the natural world in spring with a festive meal (a seder) consisting of symbolic foods and cups of wine. Tu Bi’Shevat has also come to be associated with planting trees in Israel.
Humanistic Jews celebrate Tu Bi’Shevat as a “Jewish Arbor Day,” a day on which we recognize our ethical obligations to care for the planet and its inhabitants. A Tu Bi’Shevat seder [PDF] includes symbolic foods representing themes of fertility, trees, rebirth and renewal, obligation to heal the world, earth-awareness, and the interconnected web of life.
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