02/02/2026
✨🌳 Tu B’Shvat as a bodily remembering: Tasting & Receiving & as Tikkun
🍇🍎🫐By surrounding ourselves with fruits of every sort, we impress the image of wholeness onto the fruit tree within our selves
"The tikkun is the movement from unrefreshed Da’at
to consistent renewal of Da’at"
Today is Tu B’Shvat.
A new cycle of sap rising.
A quiet reset into our bodies.
A quiet reset embedded
בְּאֶרֶץ הַקֹּדֶשׁ into the Land itself
Not only in the Land and in our soul ...
But in our guf / body!!!
in tissue,
In rhythm,
In digestion, and
In breath.
Tu B’Shvat arrives as a bodily remembering.
The body knows how to reset before the mind does.
Here, on the Land, something ancient is available again.
Not through effort.
Through eating.
Through taste.
Through presence / kedusha
Dear Women
Lets arrive together, collectively...
into Yishuv haDa’at
יִשּׁוּב הַדַּעַת
Not control.
But the conscience settling
The movement
of our inner Elokut
Yishuv haDa’at is the tikkun of Da’at itself.
Because Da’at only fractures when it is rushed,
grabbed, or pulled away
from nochachut / presence.
This is the deeper tikkun
of the Eitz HaDa’at.
But a teshuva from Love
A returning of Da’at
to an expanded kli / vessel.
This is Tikkun HaTa’am
rectification of taste.
🌱 The Root teaching as taught by *Sarah Yehudit Schneider*, drawing on the teachings of Rav Tzadok HaKohen:
*The Eitz HaDa’at was not a tree.!!!*
Not a food.
Not a thing at all!!!
It was a WAY of eating.✨
Whenever we grab pleasure from the world
in a way that disconnects us from Simcha shel Mitzvah
we fall, in that moment,
from G-d consciousness.
We take the gift
and leave the Giver behind.
That is called
אֲכִילָה מִן הָעֵץ הַדַּעַת
Eating from the Eitz HaDaat... separation.
This fall
is a loss of
Yishuv haDa’at יִשּׁוּב הַדַּעַת.
כִּי הָאָדָם עֵץ הַשָּׂדֶה
Devarim כ׳:י״ט
Adam is not only compared to a tree.
We are structured as a tree
Rooted below.
Receiving upward.
Drawing life quietly and continuously
From both directions 🔃
When Da’at is unsettled,
Our tree is shaken.
When Yishuv haDa’at returns, our inner sap rises
This is why Yishuv haDa’at is the gateway to Tikkun HaTa’am.
Taste can only be repaired when our inner tree is steady.
Lets pause here...
Breath
Receiving is not passive.
Receiving is an act of relationship.
Today, on Tu B’Shvat,
we are doing two things at once:
1. We fulfill a _mitzvat aseh_
eating from the varieties of fruit.
2. And we gently uphold a _lo ta’aseh_ *by choosing not to eat by grabbing,not to forget Hashem while enjoying taste and satiety.*
This is the tikkun.
🍎 Fruit trees are the pinnacle of the vegetative kingdom.
And we, as human beings, are a microcosm of the universe.
Within us lives an inner plant layer
A vegetative level of neshama responsible for the quiet miracles of life:
• cell division
• circulation
• respiration
• metabolism
.. growth without instruction
The Zohar teaches that this level of chiut / life force is called
צֶמַח הַנֶּפֶשׁ tzemach ha nefesh
the growing power of the soul
that rises silently from below upward.
Here the Baal HaSulam is precise and explicit...
“וְיֵשׁ ד’ בְּחִינוֹת בְּנֶפֶשׁ: דּוֹמֵם, צוֹמֵחַ, חַי, מְדַבֵּר.
וּבְּחִינַת הַצּוֹמֵחַ הִיא שֶׁכְּבָר יֵשׁ בָּהּ תְּנוּעָה פְּנִימִית וְגִדּוּל,
אֲבָל קַבָּלָתָהּ הִיא תָּמִיד מִן הַסְּבִיבָה.”
“There are 4 levels within the soul: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and speaking.
And the vegetative level is characterized by already having inner movement and growth, yet its receiving is always from the surrounding environment.”
-Hakdamah l’Panim Meirot uMasbirot
“בְּהַצּוֹמֵחַ הַקַּבָּלָה הִיא בְּהֶכְרֵחַ,
וְעַל כֵּן תִּקּוּנוֹ אֵינוֹ בְּהִתְנַגְּדוּת,
אֶלָּא בְּסִדּוּר הַקַּבָּלָה.”
“In the צומח vegetative level, receiving is by necessity;
therefore its rectification is not through opposition,
but through the proper ordering of kabbala / receiving.”
The vegetative soul
נֶפֶשׁ דְּצוֹמֵחַ
receives constantly.
Not by decision.
Not by desire.
But by life itself!🌱
This is why the tikkun of receiving / kabbalah קַבָּלָה
must take place here.
Because when receiving is aligned,
All our parts align
the entire system of self organizes.
And when receiving is distorted
(Though shame and guilt)
imbalance spreads silently through all levels of ourbeing.
This is the inner meaning of Tikkun Achilah on Tu B’Shvat.
.. restoring alignment in נֶפֶשׁ דְּצוֹמֵחַ, nefesh dtzomayach
*the place where life is taken in continuously.*
This layer
does not speak in words.
It speaks in form, color, texture, rhythm, and symbol.
And today this layer begins a new cycle...
We are not only eating fruit today.
*We are eating / drinking as trees.*
As Adam, Eitz HaSadeh,
standing between shamayim and Aretz,
*receiving without strain or shame*,
*giving without depletion.*
The fruit tree
does not rush its fruit.
It allows time, sun, water, and season to do their avodah.
So too the vegetative layer of our soul heals not through pressure,
but through rhythm / movement and emunah.
In Torat HaTzeva we say:
Form and color are not decoration.
They are instruction.
ּל פְּרִי הוּא סִימָן לְשֶׁפַע פְּנִימִי
Each fruit is a sign of inner shefa.
פְּרִי הוּא גִּלּוּי חִיצוֹנִי לְאוֹר פְּנִימִי
Each fruit is an outer revelation of inner light.
Its shape,
its hue,
its weight,
its skin,
its juice...
all trigger associations in the vegetative layer of soul.
These are subliminal suggestions of health and success.*
They bypass effort.
They enter directly.
Each fruit expresses a unique way of transforming raw material into something beautiful, nourishing,
alive.
By surrounding ourselves with fruits of every sort the successful harvest of last year
we impress the image of wholeness
onto the fruit tree within ourselves.
This is not metaphor.
This is inner biology of the neshama.
*The Second Bite*
The Baal HaSulam explains that the failure in Gan Eden was not in the initial act of tasting itself.
The first tasting
was with full higher Da’at,
with kavana, awareness, and connection.
It was possible for Adam to taste while remaining in dveikut with Hashem.
The rupture came after.
After the first taste succeeded.
After the experience of pleasure entered consciousness.
The test was not the fruit.
The test was what happens next.
Baal HaSulam explains that the fall occurred when receiving continued
without renewed intention,
when the act of tasting moved from kabbalah with Da’at
to kabbalah that relied on the residue of pleasure.
In other words
the failure was not tasting
but the second bite.
The first bite was aligned.
The second relied on enjoyment already tasted,
without returning to conscious connection.
This is the root of the teaching that the blemish was not desire itself,
but receiving without fresh Da’at.
Gan Eden was lost not because pleasure entered,
but because pleasure was repeated
without renewed alignment.
This is why Baal HaSulam teaches that the true tikkun
is not abstaining from pleasure,
but learning how to renew intention at each act of receiving.
The cheit was not the fruit.
It was tasting again
from unrefreshed Da’at
without renewed kavana/ intention.
The tikkun is the movement
from unrefreshed Da’at
to consistent renewal of Da’at
חִדּוּשׁ הַדַּעַת תָּמִיד
Receiving each moment
as if for the first time,
with presence,
with conscious return
*Meditation TO FOLLOW...*
Today, through eating with Yishuv haDa’at restored,
we bring tikkun
to the root of reception itself,
where nourishment is received in order to remain in relationship.
This is where Yishuv haDa’at יִשּׁוּב הַדַּעַת restores order
not by fixing symptoms,
but by realigning
kabbalah קַבָּלָה,
עַל מְנָת לְהַשְׁפִּיעַ,
receiving for the sake of giving.
Not by force.
*By remembering*
*how to receive.+
🌕Tu B’Shvat is not only
about trees....
It is about how we take life in.
Today, eating becomes
מַעֵין עוֹלָם הַבָּא
a taste of the world to come.
Not later.
Now.
Through color.
Through taste.
Through presence.
May this eating bring refuah,
Yishuv haDa’at יִשּׁוּב הַדַּעַת,
the settling of inner knowing into its rightful place,
and a soft, cellular remembering
of how to live in relationship.
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🌳✨ *SHEVAT · Tikkun Ta’am through Color, Time & the Body: A Torat HaTzeva Workshop Series*
Shevat is not only about fruit.
It is about how nourishment enters and how we receive.
Live ZOOM Workshops · Live from Tzfat with Rachel Leah Weiman, BFA
3 Tuesdays:
(Jan 27) · Feb 3 · Feb 10
7:00–9:30 PM IST
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🌱 WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE
• Color perception and organic painting as training for presence and slowing
• Breath-painting and color theory connecting to the vegetative soul level and supporting
הִשְׁתַּוּוּת · inner balance
• Tikkun Achila: how rushing creates craving, and how slowing restores presence and kedusha; slow, embodied entry into color and taste
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