A Person Is Like a Tree: A Sourcebook for Tu Beshvat

by Yitzhak Buxbaum

A Person Is Like a Tree: A Sourcebook for Tu BeShvat is the only sourcebook available for celebrating the Jewish holiday of Tu BeShvat, also traditionally known as the New Year of the Trees. The Tu BeShvat seder, created by kabbalists in sixteenth century Safed in Israel, is similar to the Passover seder and involves drinking four cups of wine and eating a great variety of fruits. The kabbalists sought, by their eating of fruit at the seder, to make...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765761289
• ISBN13: 9780765761286
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"