Can you imagine celebrating Tu B’Shvat from the standpoint of The Trees of Planet Earth? Not eating their fruit to stir our celebration, but celebrating their own needs and desires? The Trees need Soil, Water, Sun, Air. – and “Quintessence,” the Fifth Reality, Love. How do we nourish them with each of these?
We can imagine how to nourish them, and we invite you to join us to learn how, in a collaboration between COEJL — the Conference on the Environment and Jewish Life, led by Rabbi Dan Swartz — and The Shalom Center, led by Rabbi Arthur Waskow. They will be joined by Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, author of the first widely used Earth-centered Tu B’Shvat Seder, Birthday of the Trees. There will be the music of the Trees as well.
The gathering will take place on Zoom and FaceBook Live from 8:30 pm to 10 pm Eastern (5:30 to 7 pm Pacific) on Thursday, January 28 — Yontif Sheni, “HolyDay Second” of celebrating the Tree of Life. (We thought this unprecedented celebration of the Trees themselves should have its own unprecedented time.)