Tu BiShvat
The 15th day of the month of Shvat marks the beginning of the “new year” for trees.
Tu B’Shvat is the new year for the purpose of calculating the age of trees for tithing. The Torah states that fruit from trees which were grown in the land of Israel may not be eaten during the first three years; the fourth year’s fruit is for G-d, and after that, the fruit can be eaten. Each tree is considered to have aged one year as of Tu B’Shvat, no matter when in the year it was planted.
It is customary to plant trees and partake of the fruits of the land of Israel to mark the occasion.
- What is Tu B’Shvat? By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- A Thing or Tu ’bout Shvat By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- A Request By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- Spring to Life By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- The New Year for Trees By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- The Importance of Trees By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- An Investment In Our Future By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- Of Seeds and Growth By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- The Power of Blessings By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- Planting the Seeds of Eternity By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- Fruits of Holiness By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- Abundant Appreciation By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
- Like Manna from Heaven By Rabbi Yehudah Prero
Other Classes on Tu BiShvat by Torah.org's Parsha Authors
- Fruit and Vegetables, Man and Animals
- Reflections on Water
- Teaching of the Trees
- Tu BeShevat 5784 Perceptions (5784)
- Tu Bshavat – The “Green” Holiday
- What Goes Down
- Bal Tashchis: Preservation Of Fruit Trees Weekly Halacha (5780)
- Parshas Beshalach and Tu BeShvat Shem MeShmuel (5778)
- Planting Our Song Rabbi Wein (5760)
- The Land of the Living Hamaayan (5777)
- As the Season Turns Rabbi Wein (5767)
- Can A Person Sleep For Seventy Years? Dvar Torah (5765)
- Roots Table Talk (5766)
- Tu B’Shvat Has Arrived Perceptions (5758)
- Tu BeShevat Perceptions (5772)
- Chagim U Zemanim: Tu BeShvat Shem MeShmuel (5764)