Nissan 🌸 is here so let’s start the month off with Birkat Ha’ilanot - the blessing of the blossoming fruit trees.

This beautiful opportunity comes once a year with the blossoming of fruit trees in springtime. Every Bracha provides us the chance to practice our gratitude - appreciating another cycle around the sun, another year of birth and growth, another season of bearing fruit, another year of potential.

PRINT YOUR OWN BIRKAT HAILANOT CARD

 

Supplies:

  • Printer 

  • Laminating machine (optional)

  • Hole Puncher

  • Twine, Yarn, Pipecleaner, binderring, etc

Directions:

  • Print the card double-sided

  • Laminate the card to allow it to last long

  • Punch a hole in one or two of the corners

  • Using the holes, hang this card on a blossoming fruit tree in your neighborhood to give passerbys the opportunity to make the Bracha there!  

🌸 Go head out for a walk in your neighborhood and take in the beauty of the blossoming trees all around you. The specific halachot around this Bracha can be found here from Orthodox Union.

Let’s take the month of Nissan / April to practice our gratitude for the trees on this earth. THANK YOU HASHEM! 🌸

Handdrawn birkat Hailanot in English and Hebrew

✍️ by Sara Just-Michael