Fwd: Ticker Tu Bishvat Seder תשפ"ד 2024

Bs"d

לעלוי נשמת

My mother

 שיינדל ב"ר יעקב ז"ל 

Whose English birthday fell out today Jan 24 and her Hebrew Birthday was either on טו בשבט Tu Bishvat or the day after. 

Hi Everyone! 

If you can not make it to our Seder there is material here that may be helpful to you if you make your own Tu Bishvat Seder. If you will not be attending but want to get a better understanding, please print out the link from AISH. 

If you read through the AISH link carefully you will notice that the Tu Bishvat Seder is divided into 8 Sections.  Like a Passover Seder things are done in an order and food is eaten in a particular order.  

Here is the reference where all this is coming from:

Kabbalistic Tu B'shvat Seder

From Aish

http://www.aish.com/h/15sh/ho/48965616.html

 We organized the fruit into various categories.

To make things clear here are  different categories.

 The Category number we gave each food item corresponds with the Section in the Seder it is eaten, followed by the # cup of wine where it is eaten.  

The Program and a description of the Sections of the Seder follows below.

We drink the 4 cups of wine in sections 6 and 7.

The 4 cups of wine for Tu Bishvat:

1. All white wine

2. Mainly white wine

3. Mainly red wine

4. All red wine

For example, for a fruit that is category 61, it is eaten in Section 6 and it has inedible shells and peels and is eaten following the 1st cup of wine which is white wine.  

Food items were divided into categories:

Category 4         All Motzei, Mezonot (bread, cookies, rice, pasta)

Category 5        7 Minim 

Category 61       All Fruits with inedible shells and peels

Category 72       All Fruits with edible shells and inedible pits (2nd cup of white wine mixed with little red wine)

Category 73        All Fruits with edible shells and edible seeds (3rd cup of red wine mixed with white wine)

Category 74        Fragrance (like Etrog)

The Program begins:

Section 1    
Introduction: See Aish link printout. Summary...

Identifying the 7 Minim. (Special fruits of Israel)
Identifying Different categories of fruit (fruit that have inedible shell, fruits with edible peels but inedible pits, fruits whose entire fruit is edible and Fragrance)

Section 2
Why have a Seder

Remembering Bikurim

Remembering Tithes

        Sin of the Tree of Knowledge (Adam)

Section 3

Making sure we enjoy the fruits Hashem has given us.
Elevating the fruit with a Bracha infusing the world with Holiness absorbing spiritual essence of food.

Section 4

Eating Grain products

Tenufa - Bringing the Omer, the Barley offering on Passover. Difference between barley and wheat.

Section 5  Eating 7 Species of Israel in specific order if there is no preference (7 Minim). Olives, dates, grapes, figs,pomegranates.

Section 6  

First cup of wine (white wine)

Eating fruits of category 61,  all Fruits with inedible shells and peels

Section 7 cups 2,3,4

2nd cup of wine (white wine mixed with a little red wine)

eating fruits of category 72, all Fruits with edible shells and inedible pits.

3rd cup of wine with more red wine than white wine.
Eating fruits of Category 73, all fruits with edible shells and edible seeds.

4th cup of wine (all red)

  Fragrance.  Category 74 Thinking about Esrog

Section 8  Bracha Acharona. Thanking Hashem for the food we just ate

Thanks so much for participating. Happy Tu Bishvat!