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Tu B’Shevat – The New Year of Trees

January 27, 2016 6:08 pm / Leave a comment

treeoflifeTu B’Shevat 2022: Sunset, Sunday, January 16 to nightfal,l Monday, January 17.

It is not a biblical holiday and it has it’s roots in Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. It is a minor holiday that has been adopted by the Orthodox Jewish Rabbinic community and some other adherents to the Jewish religion.

In the 16th century in Israel, a Rabbi created a Tu B’Shevat seder, something like the Passover Seder, that celebrates the Tree of Life but with Kabbalistic principles.

Tu B’Shevat, the New Year of Trees, is the first sign on the calendar that spring is approaching and with it, the rich and deeply meaningful Passover season. Even among those who are not following the Kabbalistic rite, it is a custom to eat dried fruits and nuts.

As I will grab any opportunity to talk about the Messiah and share the full gospel of Jesus, here we go! There is a powerful significance of The Tree of Life. Sin entered our world by an act of eating from a tree. The victory over sin also was obtained by means of a tree, on that day when Messiah hung on a tree and took upon himself the curse on sin (Deuteronomy 21:22-23, Galatians 3:13.)

In the first Paradise, there was a Tree of Life in the midst of the garden (Genesis 2:9). In Genesis 3:22-24, we see these first two people driven out, due to their disobedience to God.
 
In the center of the new Paradise, the perfect Paradise of God, from which the saints shall never be driven, for it is our inheritance, there is also a Tree of Life. But here the tree is the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, that Tree of Life whose leaves are for the healing of the nations. Revelation 22:1-4 “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb  through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.”
 
 
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