"On the night of the full moon of the #Hebrew month of #Shevat, we mark #TuBishvat, a minor festival on the #Jewish calendar yet one that carries a Jewish story no less profound than that of far greater #holidays.
Tu Bishvat expresses the deep bond between human beings and the land, between spirit and matter, between past and future. It reminds us that #Jewishidentity has never been detached from the earth, from the landscape, or from our responsibility for the world in which we live.
The origins of Tu Bishvat are modest and practical: a tax day for trees, a technical and economic marker in the #agricultural calendar designed to regulate the tithes taken from #fruit-bearing #trees.
Yet even here, a larger idea is already present: The human being is not the owner of nature but rather a partner – responsible, accountable, and committed to community, peoplehood, and land."
