| Acknowledging the Orchard Keepers | xi |
| Introduction to the Tree | xiii |
| Part I | The Living Tree: A Festival's Growth Through History | 1 |
| Growing Tu B'Shvat: The Life-Juice of the Tree of History | 3 |
| Part II | Roots: Biblical Judaism in the Land of Israel | 23 |
| Biblical Passages | 25 |
| Israel: The Orchard and Vineyard of God | 50 |
| Part III | The Trunk: Rabbinic Judaism | 67 |
| Mishnah and Gemara on Tu B'Shvat | 69 |
| Midrash from The Book of Legends, Sefer Aggadah Hayim Nachman Bialik | 69 |
| "Shemonah Esrei for the New Year of the Trees": A Medieval Amidah for Tu B'Shvat | 71 |
| Is the Tree Human? | 83 |
| Thou Shalt Not Destroy | 106 |
| Part IV | Branches: Kabbalah and Hasidism | 113 |
| The Trees of Eden in the Kabbalah | 115 |
| The House of the World | 121 |
| The World Trees in the Zohar | 128 |
| Peri Eitz Hadar: A Kabbalist Tu B'Shvat Seder | 135 |
| Blessing Trees | 153 |
| The Souls of Trees | 159 |
| Conceiving the World | 160 |
| Part V | Branches: Zionism and the Land of Israel | 163 |
| Variations on the Theme of the Future | 165 |
| Zionist Ideology and the Space of Eretz Yisrael: Why the Native Israeli Is Called Tzabar | 169 |
| The Forest as a National Icon: Literature, Politics, and the Archeology of Memory | 188 |
| A Tree for a Tree: The Aggressive Nature of Planting | 210 |
| Poems by Zelda and Malka Heifetz Tussman | 225 |
| Part VI | Branches: Eco-Judaism | 229 |
| "I and Thou: A Tree" | 233 |
| "Trees for Life" | 234 |
| "The Redwood Torah" Arthur Waskow | 240 |
| "Tu Bishvat in the Redwoods: A Meditation Suite for the Earth" (poem) | 242 |
| Nebuchadnezzar, Nahman's "The Cripple," and Groundhog Day: A Meditation on Tu B'Shvat | 246 |
| The New Year of the Trees | 253 |
| Wisdom and the Two Trees | 253 |
| The Human, the Tree, and the Image of God | 263 |
| From the Wisdom of the Jewish Sages | 276 |
| Re/Membering Nature | 276 |
| Tu B'Shvat as a Visual, Mystical Rosh HaShanah | 281 |
| The Rings of Growth | 284 |
| Through Tu B'Shvat to Yah B'Shvat | 289 |
| Part VII | Fruit of the Lovely Tree: Tu B'Shvat Itself | 343 |
| Blessings for the Seder | 345 |
| Cooking Up a Tu B'Shvat Seder | 345 |
| A Circle of Friends: Tu B'Shvat for Small Children | 360 |
| Plants and Trees in Winter: Tu B'Shvat for Older Children | 361 |
| Caring for a Tree of Life | 362 |
| Getting to the Root of the Tree of Life--Outdoors | 377 |
| Food from the Sacred Tree | 380 |
| Delights of the Tu B'Shvat Table | 383 |
| Ever Since Eden: Trees, Tradition, and Tu B'Shvat | 390 |
| Tu B'Shvat Meditation | 401 |
| Judaism, Vegetarianism, and Tu B'Shvat | 403 |
| New Traditions for Tu B'Shvat | 410 |
| Sharing God's Fruitfulness | 415 |
| Etz Hiyyim Rabbah: 1.1 | 418 |
| Songs for Tu B'Shvat | 426 |
| Part VIII | Seeds: Sources for Learning and Doing | 449 |
| Resources | 451 |
| Credits | 458 |
| Notes | 459 |
| Contributors | 486 |
