Tu BiShvat Holiday Cartoon - The Nice Jewish Time Traveler

[politicoochie09]

Explain why Israeli Jews (supposedly religious ones) think they can violate Deuteronomy 20:19-20 and cut down fruit-bearing Olive Trees in areas where Palestinians live?

[itzik18]

the "custom" of planting trees does not go back hundreds of years, the zionists made it up. It is true that we have been eating trees for hundreds of years

[natashanataniela]

DEAR JEWISH EDUCATORS: Please transliterate the name of this holiday correctly! It's "Tu BiShvat." Pronounced "too -- beesh -- vat." There is no sh'va na' in the name of the holiday. Therefore do not use apostrophes in your transliterations.

Tu biShvat or Tu Bishvat or Tu BiShvat.

If you don't understand why the apostrophes are wrong, ask your friendly local Hebrew teacher (such as myself) to explain it.

Happy Jewish Arbor Day!

Natasha Shabat

[GHcool]

@natashanataniela My apologies. I always thought it was spelled with sh'va (like "B'reishit"), but its really spelled with a chirik. I had never seen the word with nikudim before today. Thanks and happy Tu Bishvat. :)

[natashanataniela]

@GHcool You got it! The sh'va in "Sh'vat" changes from na' to naH when the preposition "b'" is prefixed. And then sh'va in the prefix changes into a Hirik. Same phenomenon with all words whose first vowel is a sh'va, such as "Y'rushalayim" or, as you correctly noted, "B'reishit." That's why "in Jerusalem" is "BEErushalayim."

I see you corrected the vid title. :-) I guess it's too late to fix it in the actual vid.

Happy TubiShvat.

[pennypyro42]

when i saw in the description that he travels to the year 2525, i wasn't sure, at first, if that was the by the Gregorian calendar, or by the Hebrew calendar XD

but then i saw it's the future.

[Boy3cool]

This is a great video, you mind if I use it as a teaching tool. I am a religous school teacher and this is a great video for teaching kids the importance of Tu B'Shvat.

[GHcool]

Go for it! Thanks for watching!

[eclecticpersonagrata]

ha ha, too cute, too funny, tu b'shvat! i loved it!

[magiclakergirl32]

guy! this was tooooo funny! awesome job. and yes, mike did a great job also. lol!

:-D

xoxo

nickie

[drchazan]

Nice touch that Soylent Green bit - you do know that the man who wrote that movie was Jewish - Stanley Greenberg.

[dnovice]

What is GH?

[talyasarit]

Great job Guy!!

[mguyx]

I laughed, I cried, I went for popcorn and almost missed a relly good part. The lightning was FRIGHTENING! From one guy to another: great job!!!!!!

(Isn't that your schozola during the tissue scene???) ;-)

[stalean]

Well done, GH! I enjoyed learning about Tu B'Shvat.

[iwilledityourvideo]

Nice. Good job.

[turrell71]

GH Cool video - I learned about Judaism and how to bee good to the planet.

I liked how you made it a day of mourning because we wasted our trees - clever!

[aliarikan]

It's cute.  Well done.

[ImproperUsername]

Humor with a moral! Damn cute, GH! :)