– Q. When you eat in a Tu Bishvat meal in shul or at home the different traditional fruits what is the correct order of the brochos (blessings)?

A. First is the brocho Hamotzi on the bread or Mezonos (for cakes), followed by the brocho of ‘P’ri Hagofen’ on the wine (or grape juice) and then ‘Bore Pri Haetz’ on the olives, followed by a ‘Shehakol’ on some beer.

Once the blessing of Haetz was recited on the olives the different fruits can be eaten.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a