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Trees, Earth, and Torah is the first comprehensive collection of Jewish resources for observing the increasingly popular late winter holiday of Tu B'Shvat, the Jewish "New Year of Trees."
Shaped in the sixteenth century by the Jewish mystics of Sefat, this holiday celebrates natural and supernatural renewal, and includes a special seder modeled after the Passover seder.
This anthology draws from biblical, rabbinical, medieval, and modern sources - from art, music, recipes, and crafts, as well as fiction, poetry, and essays - about the significance and historical development of the holiday, and includes mystical writings along with Zionist and Eco-Jewish pieces.

Acknowledging the Orchard Keepers
Introduction to the Tree
The Living Tree: A Festival's Growth through History	p. 1
Growing Tu B'Shvat: The Life-Juice of the Tree of History	p. 3
Roots: Biblical Judaism in the Land of Israel	p. 23
Biblical Passages	p. 25
Israel: The Orchard and Vineyard of God	p. 50
The Trunk: Rabbinic Judaism	p. 67
Mishnah and Gemara on Tu B'Shvat	p. 69
Midrash from The Book of Legends, Sefer Aggadah	p. 69
"Shemonah Esrel for the New Year of the Trees": A Medieval Amidah for Tu B'Shvat	p. 71
Is the Tree Human?	p. 83
Thou Shalt Not Destroy	p. 106
Branches: Kabbalah and Hasidism	p. 113
The Trees of Eden in the Kabbalah	p. 115
The House of the World	p. 121
The World Trees in the Zohar	p. 128
Peri Eitz Hadar: A Kabbalist Tu B'Shvat Seder	p. 135
Blessing Trees Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad	p. 153
The Souls of Trees Nachman of Bratzlav as retold	p. 159
Conceiving the World R. Tzvi Elimelekh Shapira of Dinov	p. 160
Branches: Zionism and the Land of Israel	p. 163
Variations on the Theme of the Future	p. 165
Zionist Ideology and the Space of Eretz Yisrael: Why the Native Israeli is Called Tzabar	p. 169
The Forest as a National Icon: Literature, Politics, and the Archeology of Memory	p. 188
A Tree for a Tree: The Aggressive Nature of Planting	p. 210
Poems by Zelda and Malka Heifetz Tussman	p. 225
Branches: Eco-Judaism	p. 229
"I and Thou: A Tree"	p. 233
"Trees for Life"	p. 234
"The Redwood Torah" Arthur Waskow	p. 240
"Tu Bishvat in the Redwoods: A Meditation Suite for the Earth" (poem)	p. 242
Nebuchadnezzar, Nahman's "The Cripple," and Groundhog Day: A Meditation on Tu B'Shvat	p. 246
The New Year of the Trees	p. 253
Wisdom and the Two Trees	p. 253
The Human, the Tree, and the Image of God	p. 263
From The Wisdom of the Jewish Sages	p. 276
Re/Membering Nature	p. 276
Tu B'Shvat as a Visual, Mystical Rosh HaShanah	p. 281
The Rings of Growth	p. 284
Through Tu B'Shvat to Yah B'Shvat	p. 289
Fruit of the Lovely Tree: Tu B'Shvat Itself	p. 343
Blessings for the Seder	p. 345
Cooking Up a Tu B'Shvat Seder	p. 345
A Circle of Friends: Tu B'Shvat for Small Children	p. 360
Plants and Trees in Winter: Tu B'Shvat for Older Children	p. 361
Caring for a Tree of Life	p. 362
Getting to the Root of the Tree of Life - Outdoors	p. 377
Food from the Sacred Tree	p. 380
Delights of the Tu B'Shvat Table	p. 383
Ever Since Eden: Trees, Tradition, and Tu B'Shvat	p. 390
Tu B'Shvat Meditation	p. 401
Judaism, Vegetarianism, and Tu B'Shvat	p. 403
New Traditions for Tu B'Shvat	p. 410
Sharing God's Fruitfulness	p. 415
Etz Hiyyim Rabbah: 1.1	p. 418
Songs for Tu B'Shvat	p. 426
Seeds: Sources for Learning and Doing	p. 447
Resources	p. 449
Credits	p. 456
Notes	p. 457
Contributors	p. 483
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