By: Ben Schott, Student, SUNY Environmental Science & Forestry Everyone thinks of Tu b’Shevat as a good time for planting in Israel. We can also use this time of year to explore planting in our own neighborhoods. You can make a difference in your community as part of a growing effort to re-plant our […]
by Rabbi Shlomo Levin This article is printed as part of the Tu b’Shevat Learning Campaign, sponsored by Canfei Nesharim, an organization that is educating the Orthodox community about the importance of protecting the environment. “Horrible wood-eating ants are going to enter the tree trunk through the hole you want to hammer, devour […]
by Rabbi Yehuda Prero 2000 This is a beautifully written article about Choni HaM’agel. Using an analogy with a carob tree this paper teaches a wonderful lesson about the importance of every person no matter how fleeting our time on earth seems. Download document (PDF, 3 pgs)
by Rabbi Pinchas Winston 1998 (posted 2001) A nicely written article describing what Tu B’shvat is about and what is occurring in the ground during that time. The paper ends with a Dvar Torah on why Tu B’shvat is called the New Year for the tree and not trees; revealing to us a goal we […]
by Ariel Shalem The Jewish National Fund (JNF) was not the first to plant forests in Israel. According to the Midrash Tanhuma (ch.9) on the Torah portion of Terumah, we have a precedent for the first plantation in the Bible planted by Yaakov (Jacob) a few thousand years before. According to the Midrash, Yaakov received […]
