The World of Yetzirah (Formation) - Fruits with pits at their center
[Add a few drops of red wine and fill the rest with white. Drink half or more.]
We now drink our second cup of wine. Just as each new stream begins with a trickle, each flower with a single bud, just a few drops of color transform the hue of our wine. Although we discard the pits of these fruits, they are the seeds, the means to rebirth. These fruits can remind us that every flowering tree was once bare and that the means to growth can sometimes come from the innermost overlooked places. They can symbolize the potential within us that we have not tapped.
Discuss: What is something you have done or created that started our very small and become bigger or more important over time?
Eat Cherries | Olives | Plums | Apricots | Avocado
When I Am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu Ruach ha’Olam, borei p’ri ha’eitz.
Blessed are You, oh Divine Spirit of the Universe who creates the fruit of the tree.
Blessing for the First Time You Experience Something (Shehechiyanu)
You may want to say this before any fruit you are tasting for the first time this season.
בָּרוּך אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶך הָעוֹלָם שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וקְִיְמָּנוּ והְִגִיּעָנוּ לַזְמַן הַזֶה
Barukh ata adonai elohenu melekh ha-olam,
she-hechiyanu, v’kiy'manu, v’higi'anu la-z’man ha-zeh
Blessed be You, the One who has kept us alive
and sustained us so that we could reach this moment.
Blessing After Eating Various Fruit
ברוך אתה ה’ א‑להינו מלך העולם, בורא נפשות רבות וחסרונן על כל מה שבראת
להחיות בהם נפש כל חי, ברוך חי העולמים
Barukh atah Adonai Eloheinu melekh ha-olam, bore n'fashot rabot v'chesronan all kol ma she-barata,
l'hachayot bahem nefesh kol chai, barukh chei ha-olamim.
Blessed be You, the One who created so many different living things, all needing each other
to make Life interwoven through them all, as one soul. Blessed be the Life of all worlds.
The World of Yetzirah (Formation) - Fruits with pits at their center
[Add a few drops of red wine and fill the rest with white. Drink half or more.]
We now drink our second cup of wine. Just as each new stream begins with a trickle, each flower with a single bud, just a few drops of color transform the hue of our wine. Although we discard the pits of these fruits, they are the seeds, the means to rebirth. These fruits can remind us that every flowering tree was once bare and that the means to growth can sometimes come from the innermost overlooked places. They can symbolize the potential within us that we have not tapped.
Discuss: What is something you have done or created that started our very small and become bigger or more important over time?
Eat Cherries | Olives | Plums | Apricots | Avocado
When I Am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu Ruach ha’Olam, borei p’ri ha’eitz.
Blessed are You, oh Divine Spirit of the Universe who creates the fruit of the tree.
Blessing for the First Time You Experience Something (Shehechiyanu)
You may want to say this before any fruit you are tasting for the first time this season.
בָּרוּך אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶך הָעוֹלָם שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וקְִיְמָּנוּ והְִגִיּעָנוּ לַזְמַן הַזֶה
Barukh ata adonai elohenu melekh ha-olam,
she-hechiyanu, v’kiy'manu, v’higi'anu la-z’man ha-zeh
Blessed be You, the One who has kept us alive
and sustained us so that we could reach this moment.
Blessing After Eating Various Fruit
ברוך אתה ה’ א‑להינו מלך העולם, בורא נפשות רבות וחסרונן על כל מה שבראת
להחיות בהם נפש כל חי, ברוך חי העולמים
Barukh atah Adonai Eloheinu melekh ha-olam, bore n'fashot rabot v'chesronan all kol ma she-barata,
l'hachayot bahem nefesh kol chai, barukh chei ha-olamim.
Blessed be You, the One who created so many different living things, all needing each other
to make Life interwoven through them all, as one soul. Blessed be the Life of all worlds.
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