Talk:Tu Bishvat
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[edit] Spelling of Tu Bishvat
The vowel under the bet is a chirik, and the vowel under the shin is a sh'va na, so "Tu B'shevat" is not an accurate transliteration. Dreyfus 23:59, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Tu BiShvat
The article states that Tu BiShvat is the time to bring tithes of fruits. I believe it is more accurate to say that this day is the day of division between "last year" and "this year" as far as tithing goes. Tithes for one year may only be separated from produce of that year; you can't separate tithes from this year's produce for last year's crop, or vice versa. Therefore fruit that ripened a certain amount by Tu BiShvat had to be tithed separately from fruit that only ripened by that minimum amount after Tu BiShvat.
[edit] types of fruits
I added the material on the traditional types of fruits. I don't have a formal reference for this, but I'm pretty certain I have it right. I based it on a combination of my own recollection and a recent email sent by Brit Tzedek v'Shalom. If someone has an authoritative reference, please add that and make any corrections. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:32, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Copyvio?
Text in this article is awfully similar to the knesset.gov.il page linked. Sorry, no time to check into it thoroughly. Suitov 17:15, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, at this moment the paragraph "The earliest scholars" and the sections "Trees in Jewish sources" and "Modern Zionism" consist entirely of text plagiarized word-for-word (yes, in English) from [1], an article which includes the claim "© Copyright 2001, The State of Israel. All Rights Reserved." --Hoziron 04:47, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- OK, I removed that text from the article. You can easily look it up, either in the page history or at the site [2]. --Hoziron 04:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- Good going, thanks. --Suitov 13:41, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Seder
I read some great stuff about the Tu Bishvat seder at the kolel site, and I synthesized some of the info here. It's just a start, but it's something :) Tu Bishvat Higiah! --Bennyp 22:57, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Planting trees?
My memory of this from when I knew something about it, almost thirty years ago, says it's common (maybe among Reform Jews) to plant trees or buy trees to plant in Israel on Tu BiShvat. Is that or was that true? —JerryFriedman 23:25, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
- perhaps as true as anything else in this "holiday". There are really no laws relating to to Tu Beshvat and most have been made up very recently. Jon513 16:11, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Planting trees IS the main activity in Israel (ALL schools) and is the primary thing done in this holiday. Amoruso 06:04, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- There is a law that we do not recite tachanun. There are customs to eat fruit. Planting trees was invented by heretical zionists. Bobover1 05:26, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- Planting trees IS the main activity in Israel (ALL schools) and is the primary thing done in this holiday. Amoruso 06:04, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
