This Tu B’Shevat: Celebrating the Worms in My Kitchen
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January 30, 2018


Tu B’Shevat is many things: Ancient tax festival, kabbalistic celebration of nature, communal birthday of all trees, and contemporarily: a sort of Jewish Earth Day, a call for conversations about sustainability and our duty to protect the natural world.
Borrowing a little bit from each tradition (except maybe the taxes part), I am celebrating the birthday of the several hundred worms that currently live in my pantry.
Yes, they’re there on purpose.
Gabriela Geselowitz is a writer and the former editor of Jewcy.com.