Tu B'Shvat and Shabbos Shira
Tu B’Shvat falls out around the week of Parshas Beshalach – Shabbos Shira.
Sometimes it falls out on the Shabbos and sometimes in the weekdays near it. Shabbos Shira, the time that the Bnei Yisrael sang the Shira, Song of Praise, has some connection to the Rosh Hashana of Trees, the interval of the revitalization of the trees, is a time that the trees sing Hashem’s praises as we see in Perek Shira .
Some have the custom to stand when the Shira, Az Yashir, is being read in the Torah; even though there are authorities that rule against it, being that it appears that one is attaching more importance to those portions that people stand through.
Some have the custom to place bread crumbs (or kernels of wheat) out for the birds since the portion of the Mon is also read in this portion. In this portion the Torah relates that the Jews were told that only an Omer’s worth of Mon per member of the household will fall for each family. On Friday, a double portion, two Omer’s worth, would fall since none would fall on Shabbos. Dasan and Aviram (they were infamous individuals during the era of the exodus) defied Moshe’s command, and went and spread their ration around to refute his authority. Birds came and ate the rations that they put out (leaving them nothing). Others maintain that the birds were deserving, because they also said Shira at the Yam Suf along with the Bnei Yisroel. However the Magen Avraham states that this custom is improper (Siman 324) since it is prohibited to place food before animals (and birds) that are not one’s responsibility and the birds are ownerless that fend for themselves. Others justify those who follow the custom as it is a mitzvah (to feed H-shem’s creatures) and they leave out the morsels before Shabbos begins (on Friday).
Another custom that some follow is to cook complete wheat kernels since the Mon was designed in the form of wheat.
Sometimes it falls out on the Shabbos and sometimes in the weekdays near it. Shabbos Shira, the time that the Bnei Yisrael sang the Shira, Song of Praise, has some connection to the Rosh Hashana of Trees, the interval of the revitalization of the trees, is a time that the trees sing Hashem’s praises as we see in Perek Shira .
Some have the custom to stand when the Shira, Az Yashir, is being read in the Torah; even though there are authorities that rule against it, being that it appears that one is attaching more importance to those portions that people stand through.
Some have the custom to place bread crumbs (or kernels of wheat) out for the birds since the portion of the Mon is also read in this portion. In this portion the Torah relates that the Jews were told that only an Omer’s worth of Mon per member of the household will fall for each family. On Friday, a double portion, two Omer’s worth, would fall since none would fall on Shabbos. Dasan and Aviram (they were infamous individuals during the era of the exodus) defied Moshe’s command, and went and spread their ration around to refute his authority. Birds came and ate the rations that they put out (leaving them nothing). Others maintain that the birds were deserving, because they also said Shira at the Yam Suf along with the Bnei Yisroel. However the Magen Avraham states that this custom is improper (Siman 324) since it is prohibited to place food before animals (and birds) that are not one’s responsibility and the birds are ownerless that fend for themselves. Others justify those who follow the custom as it is a mitzvah (to feed H-shem’s creatures) and they leave out the morsels before Shabbos begins (on Friday).
Another custom that some follow is to cook complete wheat kernels since the Mon was designed in the form of wheat.
As a zechus for Yisroel Meir ben Masha Lerefuah Shleima.
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