PSA: Tu B’Shvat This Thursday, Get Your New Fruit at Mr. Greens

It’s Tu B’Shvat already, and Mr. Greens on Albany Ave is well prepared. As everyone searches for a new fruit to make a Shehecheyanu on, Mr. Greens has arranged for a wide variety of exotic and delicious fruit for any palate.

Unique fruit for this year is include Ivory Mango out of Vietnam, a rare delicacy and Lemonade Apple.

From Chabad.org:

Tu B’Shevat, the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar — celebrated this year on Monday, February 10th, 2020 — is the day that marks the beginning of a “new year” for trees. This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.

We mark the day of Tu B’Shvat by eating fruit, particularly from the kinds that are singled out by the Torah in its praise of the bounty of the Holy Land: grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates.

On this day we remember that “man is a tree of the field” (Deuteronomy 20:19), and reflect on the lessons we can derive from our botanical analogue.