Date:
Friday Night, January 21

Time: 
6:00pm

Location:
At the Medford Community Center
21 South Main St., Medford

$18 per person 

A delicious three course meal, fine wine, special fruit from Israel, great ambiance, enchanting melodies and a Shabbat experience
never to forget

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About Tu B'Shevat

Tu B'Shevat, the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar -- celebrated this year on Thursday , January 20 -- is the day that marks the beginning of a "New Year for Trees." This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.

Legally, the "New Year for Trees" relates to the various tithes that are separated from produce grown in the Holy Land. These tithes differ from year to year in the seven-year Shemittah cycle; the point at which a budding fruit is considered to belong to the next year of the cycle is the 15th of Shevat.

We mark the day of Tu B'Shevat by eating fruit, particularly from the kinds that are singled out by the Torah in its praise of the bounty of the Holy Land: grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates. On this day we remember that "Man is a tree of the field" (Deuteronomy 20:19) and reflect on the lessons we can derive from our botanical analogue.

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