Birthday of the Trees ~ Tu Be’Shvat

On this very beautiful day, we in the Jewish tradition celebrate the birthday of the Trees. We plant trees and bless their fruits, as we don’t take for granted that we can enjoy G-d’s gifts in our lives.

My work as an artist is also to help heal our world, through Peace events and by hosting numerous creative happenings. One of them was the Birkat HaChama Festival or the “Sun Blessing Festival” … another joyous day of celebration, The Birthday of the Sun! It happens every 28 years according to the bible counting of the position of the planets at their moment of creation . In 2009, during Passover, we planned a whole week of events in the most Kabbalistic city Safed in the Northern Galilee in Israel. One of the main ceremonies of that week was to plant 12 Trees, representing the 12 Biblical Tribes of Israel. It was done on the citadel of Safed, after reciting the blessing in Hebrew that is said every 28 years during dawn. The next birthday will be 2037!

Over the years we continued to plant trees via my Mother and Sisters memorial foundation, the Lindberg Peace Foundation. Below here you can enjoy seeing a few locations, in where we involved a whole school planting Trees together.

The Safed Municipality & Lindberg Peace Foundation hosted a special Tree Planting Ceremony at the a nice elementary school in Ramat Razim, in Safed, Northern Galilee, 2019. We planted trees with the mayor of Safed and 11 other organizations of Safed another area for children to enjoy the fruits in the future.

May we all enjoy the fruits of life, and appreciate the gifts of the Trees, hold them, hug them and each other. Many blessings and let’s faith in the future generations to come, to bring fruits of abundance to our world. Eva Ariela Lindberg