Correcting The Sin of Adam Harishon

Just like Adam Harishon brought death and destruction to the world through eating one fruit incorrectly, we can help heal the world by eating fruit correctly.

from a Shiur about Tu B'shvat by Bilvavi Miskan Evneh.

A man is like a tree.

Rabbi Ezreil Tauber says that when we look at a tree we have to value not just the fruit of the tree, but the tree itself.  When we look at our lives we have to value not just the moments when we accomplish what we hope to accomplish, but we have to value every moment of our lives.  Every moment that we are doing what Hashem wants us to do is a precious moment, equally valuable.

from a Shiur by Rabbi Tauber on Aish Audio

Tu B'Svat- a time for growth

Tu B'Shvat is the New Year for the Trees. As in all other points in the Jewish calendar, Tu B'Shvat offers a unique opportunity for insight into living and personal growth. Throughout the centuries, Kabbalists have used the tree as a metaphor to understand God's relationship to the spiritual and physical worlds. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, in his 18th century classic The Way of God, teaches that the higher spiritual realms are roots that ultimately manifest their influence through branches and leaves in the lower realms.

by Yitzhak Buxbaum

from Aish.com