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<div><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">From: "Liron Kopinsky" <a href="mailto:liron.kopinsky@gmail.com" target="_blank">liron.kopinsky@gmail.com</a><div class="Ih2E3d">
<br>"...you will need
to purchase both red and white wine and 15 different types<br>of fruits and
nuts; five from each of the following three categories:<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>Does anyone know a
source for needing 15 fruits specifically? </div></font></div></div></div></font></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>On Jan 7, 2008 2:59 PM, <<a href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</a>> wrote:<font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div>The URL you gave was to Hillel, which is a non-Orthodox organization,
officially non-sectarian but defacto Conservative. The post sounds like
made-up Conservative minhag to me. Tu B'Shvat is the new year for /trees/
so any fruit whose bracha is "ha'adamah" seems to me to be
irrelevant. Out go the pineapples, bananas, and berries. </div></font></div></blockquote></div><br>A little research found that this is actually based on a kabalistic work "Pri Etz Hadar"<br><span class="ArticleText">
<p class="ArticleText">Eating 15 different fruits is also significant, since this is the numerical value of <i>Yud-Heh</i>,
the Name of God which connects the physical to the spiritual, between
this world and the next world. In the Holy Temple, the Levites would
sing each of the 15 "Shir HaMa'alot" Psalms as they ascended each of
the 15 steps.</p>From <a href="http://aish.com">aish.com</a><br>
<p class="ArticleText"><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2mew3q">http://tinyurl.com/2mew3q</a></b></p></span><br>