Here are some suggestions...
- Take a walk outside. Even if it's raining or snowing or cold or....whatever. Enjoy the fresh air and look at a few trees.
- Eat a tree fruit or nut. There's a tradition to hold a Tu BiShvat Seder but it's not necessary to make a big production of it! Just enjoy the products of a tree.
- Get a little silly. One year I made green pancakes. One year I made a tree-shaped challah. What can you do to honor trees? Is this the year that we color the milk green???
- Plant something. Parsley seeds, flower seeds, anything! It doesn't take much to plant something small. Supposedly if you start parsley now, you'll have enough for your Pesach seder. Give it a try!
- Read a book about trees. Try Grandpa and Me on Tu B'Shevat or A Tree is Nice.
- Do something for the earth. Turn off a light, pack your lunch, recycle a magazine. What new thing can you do to add to your efforts to be "green"?
What else does your family do to celebrate Tu BiShvat?
this my first Tu B'Shevat.....I was born but not raised jewish, and began to become observant last October. In November, my mother was killed in a fire: I have had a tree planted in a wood in England, in a place where she lived for a time and was very happy.
ReplyDeleteSo I suppose it's a combination of honouring her memory(her ashes were just interred yesterday) and doing something for Tu B'Shevat. It's because of her that I am Jewish.
love from ALex in Scotland