This year, the Jewish "New Year for Trees
" or Tu B'Shevat, will be celebrated on January 31, 2018.
Thursday, January 16th was the Jewish New Year for Trees
. As they do each year, Ganeinu students planted a new Tree on this special day as well.
28 article about the Jewish holiday of Tu b'Shvat, or the New Year for Trees
("Celebrating trees in a New Year").
This Wednesday is Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish holiday known as the New Year for Trees
, which, regardless of what Punxsutawney Phil may or may not have seen, marks the beginning of spring in Israel.
"Dear Tree" focuses on the time of year for growth and blossoming, and is a perfect gift for Tu B'Shavat or the Hebrew New Year for Trees
, or any time of year.
A holiday in the Hebrew month of Shevat marking the New Year for Trees
, the time when the earliest blooming trees in Israel start to flower.
Celebrating the New Year for trees
would probably seem quite strange and insignificant until we take a closer look.
As this year's Tu B'Shvat (The 15th of the Jewish month of Shvat, the Jewish new year for trees
) approaches, the young tree that sprouted from one of the three seeds now has five leaves (one was removed for scientific testing) and is 14 inches tall.
The little fern was among the plants acknowledged Sunday by a small group of Jewish people who visited Mount Pisgah for a guided tour to mark Tu B'Shvat, the New Year for Trees
, a lesser-known but millennia-old annual Jewish celebration, which started at sundown Friday.
It is called 'New Year for Trees
' - the ancient rabbis of Israel designating this date as the end of winter and the dawn of spring.