Eat a Prune
January 22, 2008 - 8:32 AM by Stephanie
Today’s Tu Be’Shvat – a holiday that celebrates planting and replenishing. Accordingly, Israelis and Jews mark the day by planting trees and eating dried fruit.
However, as Dry Bones’ Yaakov Kirschen blogs…
Problem is that according to Judaism, every seventh year the Israelites were commanded to let the land relax, to let the earth replenish itself, to do no planting. And it’s that Biblical seventh year again in Israel. It’s called the “Shmitta” year. So how can you plant a tree on Tu B’Shvat when that conflicts with the Shmitta injunction against planting?
How to circumvent the problem? Read to find out…
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