Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Tuesday morning Tu Bishvat Seder update. Getting more familiar with the actual Seder. Tentative Time Schedule

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Hi Everyone!   Thanks so much for participating. Looking forward to greeting you personally... if not, hopefully via facebook live. 

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Location:  Ticker Residence

Date:      January 30th, 2018
Time:      7:30pm (note change in time a bit later than originally planned)

As noted in the previous email, please note that this is not a complete meal but a Tu Bishvat Seder featuring wine and fruits.  Best if you eat something before you come or if you wish bring your supper with you.  We have therefore pushed the time to 7:30pm.    Please bring grape juice or wine (white and/or red) if you can, a nutcracker if you have one. Anyone that wishes to be a designated photographer is welcome to the job. 

If you read through the AISH link carefully you will notice that the Tu Bishvat Seder is divided into 8 Sections.  Like a Passover Seder things are done in an order and food is eaten in a particular order.  


Here is the reference where all this is coming from:

Kabbalistic Tu B'shvat Seder

From Aish

Therefore please be patient before sampling any of the food until we actually get to it. 

7:30-8pm  We will organize the fruit into various categories.  To make things clear here are different categories whose name correspond with the Section in the Seder and  # cup of wine where it is eaten. Wine Drinking only begins in Section 6 for the 1st cup of white wine and continues in Section 7 for cups 2,3,and 4. Grapejuice can substitute wine.

Category 4         All Motzei, Mezonot (bread, cookies, rice, pasta)
Category 5        7 Minim 
Category 61       All Fruits with inedible shells and peels
Category 72       All Fruits with edible shells and inedible pits (2nd cup of white wine mixed with little red wine)
Category 73        All Fruits with edible shells and edible seeds (3rd cup of red wine mixed with white wine)
Category 74        Fragrance (like Etrog)

8 pm The Program begins

Section 1    
Introduction (designated Leader will start the Seder) See Aish link
Identifying the 7 Minim (Special fruits of Israel)
Identifying Different categories of fruit (fruit that have inedible shell, fruits with edible peels but inedible pits, fruits whose entire fruit is edible and Fragrance)
Section 2
Why have a Seder
Remembering Bikurim
Tithes
Sin of the Tree of Knowledge (Adam)
Section 3

Making sure we enjoy the fruits Hashem has given us.
Elevating the fruit with a Bracha infusing the world with Holiness
absorbing spiritual essence of food

8:20  Myriam Gabbai will read poems she has written on Tu bishvat, Shirat Hayam and the Parsha

Section 4 Eating Grain products
Tenufa
Musical interlude song (Gabe Zweig/David Kerner)
Section 5  Eating 7 Species of Israel (7 Minim). Quoting passages in Tanach where they are referenced. 
Musical Interlude song
Section 6  
First cup of wine
Eating fruits of category 61

Musical interlude song
Section 7 cups 2,3,4
2nd cup of wine
eating fruits of category 72

3rd cup 
Eating fruits of Category 73

4th Cup  Fragrance.  Category 74 Thinking about Esrog


Musical interlude song

Section 8  Bracha Acharona. Thanking Hashem for the food we just ate

9:00    Jeffery Schwartz speaks on Organic farming Judea and Samaria

Music interlude song

9:20    Binyamin Magden speaks on Green Technology

We hope the talks  will be taped and posted. Times and schedule may vary.

Thanks so much for joining. Happy Tu Bishvat!

fyi Previous email:

Fwd: Monday midnight/Tues dawn Update: Tu Bishvat Seder !Tonight, Tuesday Night January 30, Time 730 pm (note Time change) Great Speakers, Great Entertainment! Great Company and Great Food (If we will it then it is no dream!)
https://afsibrooklyn.blogspot.com/2018/01/fwd-monday-midnighttues-dawn-update-tu.html

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Monday, January 29, 2018

Fwd: Monday midnight/Tues dawn Update: Tu Bishvat Seder !Tonight, Tuesday Night January 30, Time 730 pm (note Time change) Great Speakers, Great Entertainment! Great Company and Great Food (If we will it then it is no dream!)



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We are all  looking forward! 


Location:  Ticker Residence
Date:      January 30th, 2018
Time:      7:30pm (note change in time a bit later than originally planned)


Please note that this is not a complete meal but a Tu Bishvat Seder featuring wine and fruits.  Best if you eat something before you come or if you wish bring your supper with you.  We have therefore pushed the time to 7:30pm.  There will be lots of fruits probably.  Please bring wine (white and/or red) if you can, to make sure we have enough for everyone and a nutcracker if you have one. Anyone that wishes to be a designated photographer is welcome to the job. 

Check out what a Tu Bishvat Seder is all about!  Any volunteer to make copies of the AISH Kabbalistic Seder link below?  Print your own copy and a few others if you can... Thanks. It's 15 pages long. 

 In  future email updates hope to have a better idea of the time schedule, i.e.when the speakers will speak and a facebook link for those who wish to hook up from far.  Please check your email for latest update. 

A little about the text of our Tu Bishvat Seder:

In the 16th century, the Kabbalists of Tzfat compiled a Tu B'Shvat seder, somewhat similar to the seder for Passover. It involves enjoying the fruits of the tree, particularly those native to the Land of Israel, and discusses philosophical and Kabbalistic concepts associated with the day. Among other things, the seder is a great way to appreciate the bounty that we so often take for granted, and to develop a good and generous eye for the world around us.
The seder presented here is based primarily on the Kabbalistic work, Chemdat Yamim, later published separately under the title Pri Aitz Hadar.

Kabbalistic Tu B'shvat Seder
On Tu B'Shvat, you can ponder a world-full of fruits for hours. From Aish

Tu B'Shevat Seder in Jerusalem.  It's worth to watch it to know what this Seder is all about....Rabbi Shalom Gold 1:14 hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVj7VlW0Jac


Tu B'Shvat Annoying Orange (explains what a Tu Bishvat Seder is)

Here are some of the planned  highlights of the program...
  • Binyamin Magden, a Fed Employee, our very own AFSI Brooklyn Treasurer to speak on the Technion Partnering with Cornell University at Roosevelt Island on Green Technology.
  • Myriam Gabbai a alternative healer, recently new to Marine Park Brooklyn, an Educator, editor,   knowledgeable and learned on Torah subjects,  writer, poet and graphic artist with rendition of poems she has written on Tu Bishvat, Shabbat Shira and the Parsha.
  • Gabe Zweig  on guitar, a very genuine, extremely talented musician and passionate for Judaism Individual who has been frequenting Marine Park recently,  drinking from the Torah Spring of knowledge and wisdom at Maayan Yisroel, {Rabbi and Rebbetzin Vigler  shul)
  • David Kerner on guitar.  A very talented musician whose original songs have been posted on youtube.  His pieces are timely, often connected to current events, connected to a love of Israel, love of the Jewish people and love of Torah and very family friendly :)
  • Jeffrety Schwartz Esq, attorney, close friend of Rabbi Moshe and Leah Goldsmith of Itamar on Organic Farming in Judea and Samaria
The following people have agreed to possibly send video links. If we can't get a live hookup we  hope to  share their video links on AFSI's facebook page.  Russel Siegel has agreed bli neder to put our event on facebook live so that others can watch as the event is unfolding. 
  • Rabbi Moshe and Leah Goldsmith from Itamar who will be speaking in Florida. On Shabbat Parshat BeShalach, this past Shabbat we were honored to host Rabbi Moshe Goldsmith at 4pm  in our home where he spoke about Itamar, past and present.  He started with a Biblical lesson on where Itamar is mentioned in the Torah and from there spoke about Itamar of today and how this little community grew from being a dirt paved road with only a line connected from neighboring community Yitzhar for water and electricity.  ( or maybe they had a generator and a water tank) to what it has become today, a community that is on the cutting edge of Organic Farming and education.  They have been the target of much too many terror attacks yet they have endured and persevered with faith and determination.   These people are the hidden gems of the People of Israel and BE"H soon to be recognized as such.... hopefully we won't have to wait too much longer.  
  • Rabbi Avi Schwartz from Israel, son of Palmach hero,  Dvar Torah on Tu Bishvat 
  • Tamar Adelstein of Flower Essence Therapy of Crown Heights, Israel Activist Sheleimut Haaretz will be hosting her own  Tu Bishvat Event in Crown Heights for women.  It sounds really interesting.  Tamar writes  
Hi 
my presentation is a lecture that combines Tu B'Shevat and flower essence correlations - I talk about botanical parts of the tree and their connection to the theme of the day.  I'm giving out a booklet with photographs of specific trees that people can choose essences from and make their own remedy.  I'm serving refreshments on the day's theme.

thanks
Tamar

Here is the flier 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86sGl9yfinjTVdtZDdCSTQ1aWpSN25Zdk1xcERpcUVvek5B/view?usp=sharing

PREPARATIONS
lots of fruit, including:
  1. The seven species by which the Land of Israel is praised:
    1. Figs
    2. Dates
    3. Pomegranates
    4. Olives
    5. Grapes(or raisins)
    6. wheat and barley (in the form of bread, cake or cereal)
  2. Various nuts with the shells (walnuts, almonds, pistachios, coconut), and fruits with peels (oranges, pomegranates, avocado)
  3. Other fruits with edible seeds (e.g. blueberries)
     
  4. Other fruits with inedible pits (e.g. peaches, plums)
     
  5. Wine or grape juice, both white and red
     
  6. charity box
Important note: Since insects are not kosher, check your fruits to make sure they are bug-free. Bugs are especially common in figs, dates, and dried apricots. To check, split the fruit in half and look carefully before eating.


Tu B'Shvat Recipes
Creative Tu B'Shvat Recipes
With a Middle Eastern twist!

Tu B'Shvat: 7 Species Menu
Celebrate with these incredibly tasty dishes.

Beautiful Eretz Yisroel Videos

From Jewish Heritage Project: http://thejewishheritageproject.com/
Other Videos from Judea and Samaria
Biblical Path to Peace:  http://www.biblicalpathtopeace.org/ Moshe and Norah Elkman's facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/moshe.elkman

Tu B'Shvat the holiday of the Land of Israel. Thanks Chava Shulman for sharing

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

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