Tu B’Shvat.
🌱 The Root Teaching as taught by Sarah Yehudit Schneider on the teachings of Rav Tzadok HaKohen:

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 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.
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*Meditation The inner biology of the
neshama.
Have ready a fruit from Eretz Yisrael
Breath
Close your eyes.
Imagine Gan Eden
its colors,
its scents,
its layered light.

You stand
Receiving without anxiety.
Enjoying without forgetting.
 no grabbing.
Only relationship.

Revisit the fateful moment.
The fruit.
The desire.
The possibility.

And this time
do it differently.

Receive the fruit
WITH the Giver.
Pleasure without separation.
Taste without forgetting.
This is the tikkun.

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.

Hold a fruit (from Eretz Yisrael) in your hands.
Notice its color.
Let the color speak.

Feel it.
Is it warm?
Cool?
Saturated?
Light?

Do not analyze.
Receive.

Allow Yishuv haDa’at יִשּׁוּב הַדַּעַת to deepen.

As you hold the fruit,
sense yourself as the tree.

Feet your roots.
Spine as trunk.
Arms spread as branches
With each Breath
sap rises
See into your Heart
as an orchard.

Let your body
recognize itself.
You are not separate
from what you are about to eat.

🍇 As you say the brachah, pause.
This moment is the shaar/gate.

Bring awareness to the Name
י־ק־ו־ק

Let it descend gently
into the heart.
Invite the Shechinah to dwell there.

👅 Chew slowly.
Taste fully.

Let pleasure / oneg be present
without urgency,
without taking.

Swallow
And silently say
תודה Thank You.

✨ From this moment, draw light downward.

Into that deepest crack in the collective neshama
הַשֶּׁבֶר הָעָמוֹק בְּשֹׁרֶשׁ הַנְּשָׁמָה הַכְּלָלִית

the place that stands
behind the cause
מֵעֵבֶר לַסִּבָּה
behind the cause
מֵעֵבֶר לַסִּבָּה
behind the cause
מֵעֵבֶר לַסִּבָּה
of disease,
imbalance,
aveirot,
neurosis, monkey-mind
and fragmentation.

This crack entered the world when receiving became detached from relationship,
when Da’at was separated from Yishuv haDa’at,
and eating shifted from presence
to grasping.

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,
receiving al menat l’hashpia 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.
JOIN this Tuesday...
🌳 *Tu B’Shvat arrives as a bodily remembering*
A Torat HaTzeva Meditation on Taste, Receiving & Tikkun

*״🍇🍎🫐By surrounding ourselves with fruits of every sort, we impress the image of wholeness onto the fruit tree within ourselves.*״

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.

🍎 Sarah Yehudit continues in her Haggada for TuBShevat:

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.