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Shevat is the 11th month on the Jewish calendar counting from Nissan. The high point of the month is the holiday of 15 Shevat, known as the “ New Year for Trees.” This is the day when the sap begins to rise in the fruit trees in Israel —the start of a new growing season.
The Mishnah (meaning 'study' or 'review') is the first codification of Jewish law or halachah and the first major work of Rabbinic literature. It was redacted by R' Judah HaNassi (the Prince) around 200 CE, at a time when the Roman persecution and forced dispersal of Jews threatened to eradicate our chain of tradition.
Tu B’Shevat, the 15th day of the Jewish month of Shevat, is a holiday also known as the New Year for Trees. The word “Tu” is not really a word; it is the number 15 in Hebrew, as if you were to call the Fourth of July “Iv July” (IV being 4 in Roman numerals). See Hebrew Alphabet for more information about using letters as numbers and ...
By Naftali Silberberg. Art by Sefira Lightstone. The 15 th of Shevat is the New Year for Trees, known as Tu b'Shevat. According to Biblical law, there is a seven year agricultural cycle, concluding with the Sabbatical year.
Pronounced: too bish-VAHT (oo as in boot), Origin: Hebrew, literally “the 15th of Shevat,” the Jewish month that usually falls in January or February, this is a holiday celebrating the “new year of the trees.”
Tu B’Shevat or the “birthday” of all fruit trees, is a minor festival. The name is Hebrew for the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat. In ancient times, Tu B’Shevat was merely a date on the calendar that helped Jewish farmers establish exactly when they should bring their fourth-year produce of fruit from recently planted trees to the ...
Ṭu bi-Shevaṭ, (Hebrew: “Fifteenth of Shevaṭ”), Jewish festival of the new year of trees, or arbor day. It occurs on Shevaṭ 15 (January or early February), after most of the annual rain in Israel has fallen and when, thereafter, the fruit of a tree is considered, for tithing, to belong to a new year.
