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Shevat 14, 5772 * February 7, 2012
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Editor's Note:
The snow still covers the trees (at least where I live). Israel is about halfway through its rainy season, and the trees there are barely beginning to blossom. And yet, strangely enough, this week we will celebrate Tu B'Shevat, the New Year of the trees. We will eat fruits, particularly fruits with which Israel has been blessed, none of which are yet in season.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to celebrate this holiday when the trees are heavy with ripe fruit?
The Torah teaches that "man is [like] the tree of the field" (Deut. 20:19). To grow a tiny seed into a flourishing tree takes patience and effort. In life, too, we who often toil hard and long may despair of ever seeing the fruits of our labors.
On Tu B'Shevat, when the trees have barely begun to bud, we take a ripe fruit, make a blessing and then eat it. In the process, we remind ourselves that the sweetest fruits are all contained within the smallest seeds.
As difficult as it may sometimes be to envision, the seeds of our efforts will yet blossom into sweet, ripe fruit.
Rabbi Yehuda Shurpin,
Responder for Ask the Rabbi @ Chabad.org
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURES:
CELEBRATING TREES - TU B'SHEVAT
Tu B'Shevat Homepage
Find stories, insights, videos and customs for the holiday of Tu B'Shevat, the New Year of Trees.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=06C295D929DBC580C272312F9993730F&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Kabbalistic Tu B'Shevat (By Yerachmiel Tilles)
Learn how to conduct a Tu B'Shevat seder according to the custom of the Safed Kabbalists.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=80C17DD4EA867590AB3FCA3536EE6DE6&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
The Best Is Yet to Come (By Elisha Greenbaum)
I'm a work in progress, unfinished business. I'm willing to learn and dedicated to growth, but I'm not there yet . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=94CCF315142E67B952A96B38F5AC9902&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Blossoms in the Winter (By Gershon Kranzler)
He struggled daily with the hardheaded farmer boys who were his students, for they would rather roam the countryside than learn . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=A9DB400AFD5EAC32173CB8D128CA5B3E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Tu B'Shevat in a Minute
When's the last time you wished a tree Happy New Year? The 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat is a great opportunity.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=26CA7EAB382F380765BA24DB1FB00B02&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Tu B'Shevat and Healing (By Daniel Wasserman)
Learn more about the meaning of Tu B'Shevat, and some of the health and healing properties of the fruits mentioned in Deuteronomy: "wheat, barley, grapes, fig, pomegranates, oil-yielding olives and [date] honey."
WATCH (40:00) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=44A67649ADB8C092F1F27CAA2A496B5A&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
CELEBRATING MARRIAGE
Marriage as Self-Discovery (video) (By Chay Amar)
"Relationship Rabbi" Chay Amar explains to Jewish singles why you never really know yourself until you get married.
WATCH (39:13) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=D1AAD8E420DDC629610217C9A6706DD9&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Finding Balance (by Chana Slavaticki)
Both love and awe are necessary ingredients to develop a holistic relationship.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=77E3DD95033E559BB2D6485443D48349&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Convert to Marry? (Answered by Sara Esther Crispe)
I am in the process of an Orthodox conversion to marry the man I love. I am now living a wonderful observant life, but my fiancé is not interested in living in such a way . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C00BBE246B2790EFABC70099C263D607&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
CELEBRATING FAMILIES
The Third Month Family (By Chana Weisberg)
One of your children may be particularly neat, while another might be highly creative. Contrasting the two is not only unfair; it can be destructive.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=0D59FEAD47B2CCB0CA471992C3F634A0&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Planting a Family Tree (By Rucheli Manville)
I have two weeks left. That isn't a lot of time to plant a tree and make it grow fifty different branches. I'm planting it for the woman sitting next to me . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=E8930857B215A7EE075F5DF2A309C6B4&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
CELEBRATING HUMILITY
How to Agree to Disagree (video) (By Chana Weisberg)
The gateway to tolerance is humility; but humility must be tempered with healthy and guarded self-assurance.
WATCH (17:03) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=25BA3E14EB54A9D8DD0933EC09E529B8&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Feivel's Depression (video) (By Tzvi Freeman)
Be small, accomplish big things, enjoy life.
WATCH (1:30) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F26565523B5D9E1113904DFD600C01FD&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
King Solomon's Harpist (By Gershon Kranzler)
In the time of King Solomon, there lived a young shepherd by the name of Barzilai. He was a dreamer. He dreamed of strange adventures as his eyes followed silvery clouds to the distant horizon . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=9FF9E3EA5A20FD43260B5947D741F141&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
YITRO: WE GET THE BIG 10
Yitro in a Nutshell
G-d writes a book, Moses argues with angels, Egyptian is spoken at Sinai, the Ten Commandments are set in parallel stones, and the Torah is given to Israel . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=FA1833DB7085BA91664CAF3BDCAB5726&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
The Custom That Refused to Die (By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks)
There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, but four . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=6BB505EB77FE96D8AD7FF76AC98D002B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
A Need for Speed (By Elisha Greenbaum)
When embarking on any new endeavor, there is an understandable tendency to either panic with terror or to act overconfidently, both of which lead to inevitable disaster.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=0DD460C54CA0E73D9B55013861A8AE3B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Torah in Ten (video) (By Chaim Miller)
Understand how we draw the Ten Commandments of Torah into the Ten Utterances of Creation, and why the revelation at Sinai is the basis for our belief in Moses.
WATCH (8:58) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CD39F971B541B69629192F88816181C1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
THE TORAH REALITY
Reality and Its Shadow (By Yaakov Brawer)
We live on a miniscule speck of dust floating around in the infinite void we call the universe. Where are we? What does it all mean? Why are we here? What, if anything, are we supposed to do?
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CFA66F13B8CF68D919354831AAD09590&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Understanding Our Faith (video) (By Yehuda Leib Schapiro)
What is the true definition of faith? How does believing differ from knowing? Are there logical proofs for the belief in G-d and in the divine origins of the Torah?
WATCH (49:44) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F7D1144634E8BEE3CA6B991909BB2CEA&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Torah Business Inc. (By Yitschak Meir Kagan)
Even while he sits at the supper table, a careful look at the businessman's expression, at the thoughtfulness in his eyes, reveals that the affairs of his business are very much on his mind . . .
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=004799043741D6C419E1258EA2B9DF4E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
TRANSFORMATIONAL VISITS
The Laws of Visiting the Sick (By Eliezer Wenger)
Most of the time, a short visit is preferable. One needs to take the status and the desires of the sick person into considerations.
>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=FDAF8E81A989388717A4E489FEF8135B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
The Master Craftsman (By Mina Gordon)
As a young girl, I had always wondered why Babushka never seemed to have much variety of food in her house. We would come to visit, and she had almost nothing to offer her grandchildren to eat.
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