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."
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