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	Shvat from WUJS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Shvat is the fifth month of the Jewish year.
		Therefore the Rabbis have compared the first of Shvat, and the whole month, to the time of the original giving of the Torah in Sivan.
		Thus, like Sivan, Shvat is a particularly appropriate month for learning, celebrating and renewing our connection to the rest of the Jewish people.
	www.wujs.org.il /activist/learning/months/shvat.shtml (332 words)

	Tu B'shvat 2006, New Year for Trees
		Shvat is the name of the 11th month of the Hebrew calendar (the first month being Nissan in the spring).
		The tithes are calculated according to the year, and in the case of tithing produce from trees, the day used for reckoning the "new year" is 15 Shvat.
		Other religious agricultural obligations regarding trees are also reckoned according to Tu B'shvat, such as the commandment of "Orlah", leaving the fruits of the tree for three years.
	www.jewishbyte.com /tubshvat.php (495 words)

	The Temple Institute: Shvat - The Month of Rebirth
		The theme of this month of Shvat is the concept of renewal and rebirth.
		This idea reaches its crescendo on the 15th day of the month, when we celebrate the holiday of Tu B'Shvat (lit., "the fifteenth of Shvat", to be celebrated this year on January 25th).
		This day, called by the Mishna "The New Year of Trees," conveys a sublime idea, and our sages teach that Tu B'Shvat is a special day: on that day, a unique wave of Divine energy flows through all of creation, a forerunner of the restoration, rejuvenation and rebirth of spring.
	www.templeinstitute.org /archive/18-01-05.htm (898 words)

	Strat's Place - Daniel Rogov - Israel - Singing in the Rain - Tu Bi Shvat 2002
		Considering that most of the people in the northern hemisphere will be wearing heavy sweaters and that there is a good chance of cold winter rains, many of us have a problem accepting the five hundred year old tradition that states that this is the day that marks the onset of spring.
		Oddly enough, there is logic to the fact that Tu BiShvat, which literally means the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, marks the changing of seasons.
		Despite the cold and the rain, it is impossible to ignore the fact that within Israel the trees are starting to bloom, wild flowers will be found in abundance wherever one looks, and it is obvious that a new season is really beginning.
	www.stratsplace.com /rogov/israel/singing_in_rain.html (802 words)

	Tu B'Shvat, New Year or Bar Mitzvah?
		The explanation is that by the fifteenth of Shvat, the tree has taken up enough moisture from the ground to be able to produce the new fruits.
		It is entrenched in the earth, yet it unites the waters of the heavens through the magical influence of the sun.
		Suddenly, in the month of Shvat, the tree begins to show the smallest signs of life.
	www.jewishmag.com /99mag/tu/tu.htm (753 words)

	Shvat: A Time to Grow -- Darche Noam Institutions
		Shvat is most known for the fifteenth day of the month called "Tu B'Shvat" or the "tree holiday".Unfortunately, since we are not much of an agricultural society today, the significance of trees, and thus the month of Shvat, is lost on us.
		Regarding the month of Shvat, R. Avraham Issac Kook writes (in "Meged Yerachim"), "The planting of fruit trees on holy ground will sprout the hope for many generations."Based on what we've said, the "planting of fruit trees" would refer to producing and raising Torah-observant children.
		Putting all of this together, R. Kook is saying, "Only if we raise Torah-observant children who have a love for Eretz Yisrael, can we hope to see the coming of Moshiach and thus survive for many generations to come".
	www.darchenoam.org /articles/web/holidays/ar_shvat_sh.htm (972 words)

	COEJL Tu B'Shvat: Shabbat Intro
		Tu B’Shvat is the New Year for trees, because on the 15th of Shvat in ancient Israel the new year’s crop of fruit trees were tithed and brought to the Temple as an offering to God and to give to the priests and to the poor to eat.
		With the full moon on the 15th of Shvat a distinction was easily made between the old crop of fruit trees and the new year’s crop.
		The 15th of Shvat was put aside as a time when offerings of food were brought to the Temple to celebrate growth and to recycle such growth, by leaving portions of one’s harvest for the poor.
	www.coejl.org /tubshvat/celebrate/shabbatintro.shtml (1716 words)

	Torah Tots - The Site for Jewish children - Tu B'Shvat Story
		If a farmer plants a tree on the 14th of Shvat, the tree's already a year old on the 15th of Shvat.
		Because the fruits begin to grow at this time, it is fitting that we start the New Year for the tree (which has significance to the fruits produced and the gifts the fruit are subject to) at this time.
		In Eretz Yisroel, the 15th of Shvat is the day when new sap starts to rise in the trees.
	www.torahtots.com /holidays/tubshvat/tubstory.htm (1526 words)

	Insights and Customs of Tu B'shvat
		The sages have reckoned that the fifteenth of Shvat is the border date in regard to fruits.
		Fruits which have realize a third of their growth by Tu B'shvat are tithed on the previous year.
		The sages explain that by the fifteenth of Shvat the soil is saturated with the rains of the passing winter so that growth is assured for the New Year.
	www.jewishmag.com /76mag/fruits/fruits.htm (848 words)

	Shvat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A Rebbe's Guide to the Month of Shvat
		Shvat, the month of dead winter, is the also the month of abundant rain in Erutz Yisroel.
		While Hanuka completes the cycle of preceding months, Shvat features the first flowering of processes renewed in months to follow.
	www.rebshlomo.org /months/shvat.html (504 words)

	Tu B'Shvat — The Fifteenth of Shvat
		The Talmud tells us that the fifteenth of Shvat is the "Rosh HaShana" (New Year) for trees.
		Tu B'Shvat — "Tu" represents the number fifteen — is the day when the sap begins to flow back into the limbs of the tree to begin a new season of growth.
		While praying for an esrog, one should also pray for all the fruit trees in the world that they should produce abundant good fruit.
	members.aol.com /lazerA/15shevat.html (504 words)

	Sichos In English: The Night Following The 22nd Of Shvat
		The Night Following The Eleventh Of Shvat, 5752
		The 11th Of Shvat And Shabbos Parshas Beshallach
		The Eve Of The 22nd Of Shvat, 5752
	www.sichosinenglish.org /books/sichos-in-english/51/29.htm (1495 words)

	Tu Bee'shvat - 15th Day of Shvat
		Tu Bee'shvat is the Hebrew form of the "15th day of Shvat." This day in the year marks the new year for trees.
		In Sefer Yetzirah, we are taught that G-d created the month of Shevat through the Divine channel of the letter tzadik.
		The material contained on this site has been prepared by Gal Einai Institute, a United States non-profit organization dedicated to disseminating and implementing the inner wisdom of the Torah--Kabbalah and Chassidut--as taken from the teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh
	www.inner.org /times/shevat/shevat57.htm (1870 words)

	Tu B’ Shvat Seder
		Today, on Tu B’ Shvat the sap of the tree is starting to move and energize the tree, which will ultimately produce its first budding on Rosh Chodesh Nissan.
		We can learn from this that if we start with a simple initiative, a desire that is not even seen or felt, it can make all the difference in achieving our goals and destiny having fulfillment in getting closer to our Creator.
		The connection between fruits and worlds is based on the fact the word used in Kabbalah for a negative force that conceals G-dliness is klippa,, shell - by extension, the term can also mean “pit.”
	www.messiahtruth.com /seder.html (1247 words)

	What is Tu Bishvat
		Beit Hillel and Beit Shamai were divided on the issue of the date on which plants awaken from their winter hibernation and start to feed on the rains of the new year.
		Tu B'Shvat is a time for the family to get together and on Tu B'Shvat it is customary to partake generously of fruits, and in particular, the species of fruit for which the Land of Israel is blessed -- wheat, barley, grapes, pomegranates, figs, olives, and dates "
		Rabbi Isaac Lurie and his associates founded the Jewish center in Safed, they established the custom of eating fruit on the 15th of Shvat, as a symbol of man's participation in the joy of the trees.
	www.cmy.on.ca /toraportions2000/modeim/tubishvat.htm (447 words)

	Trees, Earth, and Torah: A Tu B'Shvat Anthology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Exploring childbirth from within a Jewish tradition, the author of New Lifedraws on folklore, prayers, folk remedies, and biblical, rabbinical, and mystical literature to discuss Jewish beliefs, values, and customs concerning the birth of a child.
		This exhaustive and exhausting collection of essays, biblical passages, poems, songs and recipes scrutinizes Tu B'Shvat, a minor Jewish festival that occurs on the 15th day (tu Equals number 15 in Hebrew) of Shvat, the fifth month of the Jewish year (it usually falls between mid-January and mid-February).
		Known as the New Year of the Tree, Jewish Arbor Day or Tree-Planting Day, Tu B'Shvat began as a tax day for calculating which fruit would be included in the tithe brought to the Temple.
	www.booksmatter.com /b0827606710.htm (246 words)

	Tu B’Shvat, Birthday of the Trees
		In this hushed moment we celebrate the new year of the trees, and the reawakening of the Tree of Life.
		Tu B’Shavt is celebrated on the fifteenth (full moon) of the Jewish month of Shvat.
		This date was fixed as the year-end date for the fruit crop, so the tithe on fruit could be calculated and paid.
	www.schooloftheseasons.com /tbshvat.html (692 words)

	Tu B’Shvat: Celebrating Pleasure -- Beliefnet.com
		God wants to give us the greatest of all pleasures--enjoying nature as a bridge to the divine.
		The celebration of Tu B'Shvat--the 15th of the month of Shvat on the Hebrew calendar--is not mentioned in the Bible.
		The oldest reference is found in the Talmud, where Tu B'Shvat is called "the new year of the trees." The Talmud ascribes significance to this date only in terms of the legal implications of taking tithes (10%) from fruits.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/185/story_18552_1.html (663 words)

	In Context: New Year of the trees
		Almost everything that most people "know" about Tu B'Shvat is totally wrong and completely false.
		Tu B'Shvat, the 15th day of the month of Shvat in the Jewish calendar, has been deconstructed in recent years and converted into a holiday of ecology and environmentalist political agitprop.
		It is waved about by the Tikkun Olam Pagans as a political banner to demand that all Jews support the Green political agenda.
	incontext.blogmosis.com /archives/020862.html (488 words)

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		Amazingly, just through the simple act of eating fruit during the Tu B'Shvat festive dinner, we are able to contribute to this cosmic repair
		Tu B'Shvat - the 15th of the month of Shvat on the Hebrew calendar- is not mentioned in the Bible.
		The oldest reference is found in the Talmud, where Tu B'Shvat is called "the new year of the trees." The Talmud ascribes significance to this date only in terms of the legal implications of taking tithes (10 percent) from fruits.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3214940,00.html (1712 words)

	Festival Focus: Tu B’Shvat
		The next Jewish holiday is the minor agricultural festival of Tu B'Shvat, meaning the "15th of (the Hebrew month of) Shvat." We often refer to this holiday as "The New Year of the Trees." This year, the 15th of Shvat falls on February 1st.
		In Judaism, we consider trees an essential element of nature that helps to sustain life and health.
		For a complete listing of article comments, questions, and other discussions related to Beth Lewis's Judaism topic, please visit the Discussions page.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/_judaism_retired/15008 (289 words)

	Tu B'Shvat \| The Shalom Center
		The trees are reborn in the depth of winter, and the Kabbalists of Tzfat (Safed) taught that the Tree of Life, God's own flow of abundance, was also reborn then.
		They created a Tu B'Shvat Seder to celebrate that time (the full moon of the month of Shvat), which will come this year on January 24-25.
		Click here for a world of teaching about this festival.
	www.shalomctr.org /taxonomy/term/118 (442 words)

	Yud Shvat 5732 (1972) \| Chabad.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chabad.org » Library » 10 Shvat » Yud Shvat 5732 (1972)
		The content on this page is copyrighted by the author, publisher and/or Chabad.org, and is produced by Chabad.org.
		In everlasting memory of our founder, Rabbi Yosef Y. Kazen, pioneer of Torah, Judaism and Jewish information on the web
	www.chabad.org /library/article.asp?AID=1270 (158 words)

	'A Thing or Tu 'bout Shvat' - Torah.org
		'A Thing or Tu 'bout Shvat' - Torah.org
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		May G-d grant us all the capacity to dream dreams of holiness and growth, and allow us the wherewithal to accomplish it in our lifetime.
	www.torah.org /learning/yomtov/tubshvat/thingortu.html (730 words)

	L'chaim to the Trees - Tu B'Shvat with Aish
		Tu B'Shvat, the 15th of the Hebrew month Shvat, is the New Year for Fruit of the Trees.
		This striving is articulated in many communities by sitting down together and having a Tu B'Shvat Seder.
		(Some have the custom of tasting 15 different types, since this on the 15th of Shvat.)
	www.aish.com /tubshvat/tubshvatinterests/Lchaim_to_the_Trees.asp (1374 words)

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	www.cardfountain.com /ecards-index/holiday-ecards/tu-b-shvat.php (120 words)

	January Full Moon, Tu B’Shvat
		I first learned about the Birthday of the Trees in Arthur Waskow's wonderful book about Jewish holidays, Seasons of Our Joy.
		Celebrated on the full moon of the Jewish month of Shvat, it marked the year-end date for the fruit crop, the time when the tithe of fruit was calculated and paid.
		This was considered a pivotal point in the life cycle of the trees, when the sap began to rise again in trees which had been dormant during the winter.
	www.schooloftheseasons.com /newletters/news011905.html (2835 words)

	Annie's "Tu B'Shvat" Page
		"Tu B'Shvat, the New Year for Trees, falls on the 15th of Shvat.
		marks the 15th of Shvat as the day when the sap in the trees begins to rise,
		For a Listing of the Rest of my Pages:
	www.annieshomepage.com /tubshvat.html (130 words)

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