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Ok, we all kind of 'celebrate' - we know the day is there because it's marked on our Jewish calendar. Maybe some of us make an effort to eat a new fruit or a fig or two, or even all of the Shivat Haminim. Apparently some people eat Etrogs on Tu B'Shvat. (but aren't those kinda spoiled by then?) I remember being given goodie bags filled with various dried fruit in elementary school - I don't know what they were thinking - most of those bags ended ended up in the garbage, because really what 7 year-old wants to eat dried apricot?
There are always Tu B'Shvat parties to go where you can participate in a seder. But here's where my question comes in - do people actually have 'seders' at home?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
does anyone actually celebrate Tu B'Shvat?
love, Maidel at 12:56 AM
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Don't know about "at home", but when I lived in Berkeley, Tu B'Shvat was huge among the Jewish hippie types - communing with God's earth and all that.
Haven't had a Tu B'Shvat seder yet, but I have every intention of starting that tradition... next year (we're spending shabbas at my parent's this week, so we'lll have to wait until next year to have a seder).
i work in a school and they sent home packets all about the tu bshevat seder and having 4 cups of wine and everything!
We have a tu b'Shvat seder every year. To be fair, it's mostly just four cups of wine and some almonds, so it's more like a happy hour than a seder per se, but we always do it. I'm just now realizing that most people don't.
I don't know about a seder, but we totally celebrate it...especially when it's on Shabbos. We have a big dessert party with all kinds of fruits and fruit salads and esrog jelly...
My daughter's BD is on TBS so naturally we celebrate.
I've never heard of a Tu B'Shvat seder before, where does that come from? Sounds cool.
It comes from silly Bal'tshuvas mixing up the 4 cups of wine of the pesach seder with the minchag of having a simple seder (aka regular meal) with different types of produce that you can say shechianu on.
Can I get a communal eye roll toward what Anonymous said?
shame on you anon!
but seriously, I never heard of a TB seder :S, wtf likes those stuff anyway? carob?really? ewww
The TB seder is a kabalistic thing started in the 15th century. Many chassidim and hippie types rock it old school.
Both places I went to this shabbos had a plate of seasonal fruits, which is cool because in San Francisco everything is in season all of the time.
We always have fruits for shechianu and other fresh and dried/candied fruits.
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