Tu B’Shvat – Sing Praise, Happy Birthday, Then Back to Work!
“From the mystical perspective, reality is always both broken and perfect all at once,” Rabbinic Pastor Estelle Frankel says in an allusion to Isaac Luria’s Tikkun Olam, Repairing the World.
This week we celebrate Tu B’Shvat, which in contemporary times signifies the birthday of the trees. Even here in Chicago in February there is potential for spring, for becoming, as tree sap begins to rise […]