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 a mystical tikkun (fixing) to repair the sin
of Adam and Eve in eating fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge
of Good and Evil. Yitzhak Buxbaum, the author of this
sourcebook, notes that whereas most Jewish holidays are biblical
in origin, and while Chanukah and Purim were instituted by the
ancient rabbis. "Tu BeShvat is the only holiday ordained by the
kabbalists.". Format: Hardcover, 274pp