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Tu BiShvat seder table. A Tu BiShvat seder is a festive ceremony, often accompanied by a meal featuring fruits in honor of the Jewish holiday of Tu BiShvat.. During the Middle Ages or possibly a little before that, this day started to be celebrated with a minor ceremony of eating fruits, since the Mishnah called it "Rosh Hashanah" ("New Year"), and that was later understood as being a time ...
Tu BiShvat is the cut-off date for determining to which year the tithes belong. [citation needed] Tu BiShvat falls on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat and begins a three-month series (in years without a leap year) of holidays that occur on the mid-month full moons that culminate in Passover. [10]
Unicode support for Hebrew with diacritics remained a major hurdle for all projects working with vocalized Hebrew text until 2003, when version 4.0 of Unicode was released. The project remained dormant until late 2008 when it merged with the Jewish Liturgy Project, an open-source project with similar goals being developed by Efraim Feinstein.
The seven species are traditionally eaten on Tu Bishvat, the Jewish "New Year for Trees"; on Sukkot, the "Festival of Booths"; and on Shavuot, the "Festival of Weeks". In halakha (Jewish law), they are considered more important than other fruits, and a special berakhah (blessing) is recited after eating them. Additionally, the blessing prior to ...
Tu BiShvat, New Year of the Trees. Universally at Shacharit but not at mincha nor the mincha before. 14–15 Adar I: Purim Katan and Shushan Purim Katan: 14–15 Adar: Purim and Shushan Purim: 23–29 Adar: Shivat Yemei HaMilluim - 7 inaugural/pre-inaugural days of the Mishkan. Primarily a chasidic custom, and most communities do recite Tachnun ...
A Belzer tische, Purim 5766 (2006). During a tische, the Rebbe sits at the head of the table and the Hasidim gather around the table.In large Hasidic movements, only the Rebbe and his immediate family, plus a few close disciples, partake of the actual meal, but small pieces of bread, fish, meat, poultry, farfel, beans, kugel, cake or fruit, as well as small cups of wine or other beverages, are ...
On the Hebrew calendar, the seven-day holiday of Sukkot in the autumn (late mid-September to late mid-October) is immediately followed by the holiday of Shemini Atzeret.In Orthodox and Conservative communities outside Israel, Shemini Atzeret is a two-day holiday, and the Simchat Torah festivities are observed on the second day.
Title page of Perek Shira in an 18th-century illuminated manuscript. A close up of Perek Shira from a 17th-century Dutch Siddur. Perek Shira (Hebrew פרק שירה, lit. . "Chapter of Song") is an ancient Jew