As our seder comes to a close, take a moment to reflect on the journey we have taken together. Our holidays are specific markers in time that galvanize us to be mindful of who we are and who we aspire to become.
Credits:
Editors and Designers, 2021 Edition: Rabbi Josh Ratner, Rachel Miller, Hannah Henza, Rabbi Nate DeGroot , David Rendsburg, and Hannah Elovitz. Special thanks to Hazon staff, and volunteers, who have guided the creation of this haggadah over the years: Judith Belasco, Arielle Cohen, Anna Hanau,
Daniel Infeld, Leah Koenig, Rachel Loebl, Sabrina Mallach, Elan Margulies, Ben Murane, Deborah Newbrun, Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein, Elisheva Urbas, and Jake Wilkenfeld-Mongillo. Hazon gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders, without whom none of our work would be possible.
Copyright © 2021 Hazon This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. You may use the content of this haggadah in your own work, as long as you provide attribution to Hazon and (if necessary) the original author. http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Actualization | Earth | Body | Land | Breath/life force | Action in physical world | Facts/data/observation | Freedom & Joy in embodied be-ing
We begin our Tu B’Shvat seder by considering our own personal relationships with the physical world. For more than twenty centuries, Jewish tradition has revered land and place; whether we are turning to face Jerusalem when we pray, expressing a desire to return to the Promised Land, or sharing a meal in a sukkah.
Consider your individual relationship with land and place. We are guided by the questions:
What is my relationship to my sense of home?
How do I affect it and how does it affect me?
The First Cup
The first cup we drink at the seder is pure white, like winter. It can represent the beginning spark of divine creation; the time when creation began with the separation of light from darkness. White can also represent a seed or sapling, waiting patiently beneath the winter snow to fulfill its potential and grow into a beautiful tree.
The Blessing Over the First Cup
We each fill our cup with white wine and say the blessing together:
בְּרוךְ אתה הָוַיָה אלהנוּ רוּחַ העוֹלם בּוֹרֵא פְרי הַגָפֶן
Barukh ata HaVaYaH Eloheinu ruach ha’olam borei p’ri hagafen.
Blessed are You, Unfolding of Life, our God, Spirit of the Universe, that creates the fruit of the vine.
*You may now drink half the cup of wine*
This cup of wine is partly white and mostly red. In the heat of summer our tree has rooted herself firmly in the earth, grown into its full being and is blooming. The shade, wood, herbs and flowers that are her simple and modest gifts to the earth and humankind allow us to now see her and embrace her as a provider.
We each add more red wine to the mixture of wine that is already in our cup, so that the cup is again full. We say the blessing together, and then drink all of the wine in the cup except for a small drop.
In so doing, we can ask:
What does abundance mean to us?
What is the symbolism of refraining from finishing our cups?
The Blessing Over the Third Cup We each fill our cup with mostly red wine and some white, and bless together:
Baruch ata Adonai, eloheinu melech ha olam, borei p’ri hagafen.
When I Am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
.בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּֽפֶן
Barukh ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha’-olam borei p'ri ha-gafen.
Blessed be You, the One who creates the fruit of the vine.
As our seder comes to a close, take a moment to reflect on the journey we have taken together. Our holidays are specific markers in time that galvanize us to be mindful of who we are and who we aspire to become.
Credits:
Editors and Designers, 2021 Edition: Rabbi Josh Ratner, Rachel Miller, Hannah Henza, Rabbi Nate DeGroot , David Rendsburg, and Hannah Elovitz. Special thanks to Hazon staff, and volunteers, who have guided the creation of this haggadah over the years: Judith Belasco, Arielle Cohen, Anna Hanau,
Daniel Infeld, Leah Koenig, Rachel Loebl, Sabrina Mallach, Elan Margulies, Ben Murane, Deborah Newbrun, Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein, Elisheva Urbas, and Jake Wilkenfeld-Mongillo. Hazon gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders, without whom none of our work would be possible.
Copyright © 2021 Hazon This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. You may use the content of this haggadah in your own work, as long as you provide attribution to Hazon and (if necessary) the original author. http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Actualization | Earth | Body | Land | Breath/life force | Action in physical world | Facts/data/observation | Freedom & Joy in embodied be-ing
We begin our Tu B’Shvat seder by considering our own personal relationships with the physical world. For more than twenty centuries, Jewish tradition has revered land and place; whether we are turning to face Jerusalem when we pray, expressing a desire to return to the Promised Land, or sharing a meal in a sukkah.
Consider your individual relationship with land and place. We are guided by the questions:
What is my relationship to my sense of home?
How do I affect it and how does it affect me?
The First Cup
The first cup we drink at the seder is pure white, like winter. It can represent the beginning spark of divine creation; the time when creation began with the separation of light from darkness. White can also represent a seed or sapling, waiting patiently beneath the winter snow to fulfill its potential and grow into a beautiful tree.
The Blessing Over the First Cup
We each fill our cup with white wine and say the blessing together:
בְּרוךְ אתה הָוַיָה אלהנוּ רוּחַ העוֹלם בּוֹרֵא פְרי הַגָפֶן
Barukh ata HaVaYaH Eloheinu ruach ha’olam borei p’ri hagafen.
Blessed are You, Unfolding of Life, our God, Spirit of the Universe, that creates the fruit of the vine.
*You may now drink half the cup of wine*
This cup of wine is partly white and mostly red. In the heat of summer our tree has rooted herself firmly in the earth, grown into its full being and is blooming. The shade, wood, herbs and flowers that are her simple and modest gifts to the earth and humankind allow us to now see her and embrace her as a provider.
We each add more red wine to the mixture of wine that is already in our cup, so that the cup is again full. We say the blessing together, and then drink all of the wine in the cup except for a small drop.
In so doing, we can ask:
What does abundance mean to us?
What is the symbolism of refraining from finishing our cups?
The Blessing Over the Third Cup We each fill our cup with mostly red wine and some white, and bless together:
Baruch ata Adonai, eloheinu melech ha olam, borei p’ri hagafen.
When I Am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
.בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּֽפֶן
Barukh ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha’-olam borei p'ri ha-gafen.
Blessed be You, the One who creates the fruit of the vine.
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