Tu B'Shvat at Torah Links

Today is Tu B'Shvat, a Jewish holiday that marks the beginning of a “New Year for Trees.”

At Torah the Torah Links of Middlesex County Hebrew School and JEPY, school families did a pre-Tu B'Shvat chocolate activity.

Here are a few photos of the event.

According to Rabbi Shlomo Landau, Tu B'Shvat 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.

The day is marked 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.