Use any version that feels comfortable. The point is to slow down and notice what you are receiving.

• Blessing over fruit of the tree
• Blessing over fruit of the vine (juice or wine)
• Shehecheyanu (optional)

Optional intention: “May this fruit remind us of the living systems that sustain us, and the responsibility that comes with gratitude.”

• A fruit with a shell or peel you do not eat: what protects us
• A fruit with a pit you do not eat: what we carry
• A fruit you can eat entirely: what we can receive freely

As you eat, ask:

• What do I need to protect right now
• What truth do I carry, even when it is hard
• What gifts am I ready to receive with less hesitation

Some Tu BiShvat seders use four cups of wine or grape juice to move from winter toward spring.

• Cup 1: mostly light juice
• Cup 2: light with a little darker mixed in
• Cup 3: darker with a little light mixed in
• Cup 4: mostly dark juice

• What is one part of creation that keeps you steady
• Where do you see resilience in the natural world
• What do you want to repair, protect, or grow this year
• What is one habit of extraction you want to replace with a habit of care

Optional closing: “May we be people who bless what sustains life, and who sustain what we bless.”

Torah invites us to notice. Science gives us more to notice. The more we learn about sunlight, water cycles, soil, and living systems, the more precise our gratitude can become.

Tu BiShvat is a chance to hold both truths at once: the world can be described in molecules and measurements, and the world can be received as blessing.

One simple practice: before a blessing, name one link in the chain that brought this fruit to you, like sun, rain, soil, time, hands.

You do not need biochemistry to bless a piece of fruit. But sometimes a little science helps us notice what the blessing is pointing toward.

Trees and people share a quiet partnership. Trees take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen. We take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. It is not only poetry. It is the shared breath of life.

Inside us, every cell turns food into usable energy. The Krebs cycle (also called the citric acid cycle) is part of that process. Naming it is not the point. Noticing the gift is.

• Photosynthesis: sunlight helps plants turn carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen
• Respiration: our cells use oxygen to release energy from those sugars, producing carbon dioxide and water
• Krebs cycle: one of the central pathways that helps make that energy available to the body