The meaning of the Month of SHEVAT

                                                                  SHEVAT-

    It was for this reason that the sages of old declared Tu B'Shevat (15th of Shevat) as a New Year. Not in the sense that the calendar starts over or the years change. Rather, Tu B'Shevat is a new year for trees. The Torah requires that the fruit of trees planted in the Land of Israel remain forbidden for three years (Lev. 19:23-25). Instead of counting the years for each individual tree, all trees were given a singular date which they would be counted from.

Jan 6 Full Moon 2023

Jan 21 New Moon; Shevat 1- Jan 22 at sunset

Feb 5 Full Moon; Tu B'Shevat at sunset

Feb 20 New Moon; Adar 1 at sunset

March 7 Full Moon; Purim starts at sunset Mar 6

March 21 New Moon; Nisan 1 at sunset Mar 22.

April 5 Full Moon; Passover starts at sunset, Nis. 15

April 19 New Moon; lyyar starts Apr 20 at sunset

May 5 Full Moon; Pesach Sheni 2"d Passover

May 19 New Moon; Sivan 1 starts May 20 @ sunset

June 3 Full Moon

June 17 New Moon; Tammuz 1 starts Jun 18 sunst

July 3 Full Moon

July 17 New Moon; Av 1 starts Jul 18 at sunset

Aug 1 Full Supermoon; Tu B'Av starts at sunset

Aug 16 New Moon; Elul 1 starts at sunset

Aug 30 Full Supermoon

Sept 14 New Moon (Erev Rosh Hashanah even. 15)

By Gathering Zion's People, 2022.

There is a wonderful interconnection between trees, fruit and Torah described in Psalm 1:How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the Torah of the LORD, and in His Torah he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers. (Psalm 1:1-3)

Shevat in Jewish history and tradition[edit]

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

• 1 Shevat – Moses repeats the Torah (Deuteronomy 1:3)
• 2 Shevat (circa 1628 BC) – Asher born
• 10 Shevat (1950) - Death of the Previous Rebbe, the 6th Chabad Rebbe.
• 10 Shevat (1951) the Lubavitcher Rebbe formally accepts the leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement by reciting the discourse "Bati Legani".
• 22 Shevat (1988) - Death of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, who was married to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Rebbe
• 24 Shevat (517 BC) – Zechariah's prophecy (Zechariah 1:7–16)
• 28 Shevat (circa 134 BC) – Antiochus V abandoned his siege of Jerusalem and his plans for the city's destruction. This day was observed as a holiday in Hasmonean times.^[1] (Megilat Taanit)

     THE PROPHET Zechariah SAID there was an Angel of the Lord sent to Him Comfort and send Words of Affirmation to the Bloodlines of Jerusalem and Judah. The Angels spoke to Zechariah and Said, that the HOLY Father is Jealous for the Hearts and Souls of The Bloodlines of Jerusalem and of Judah, that He is going to Send more Protectors to Protect His Anointed Tribes.

                          A Vision of a Horseman

7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying, 8 “I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. 9 Then I said, ‘What are these, my lord?’ The angel who talked with me said to me, ‘I will show you what they are.’ 10 So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, ‘These are they whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth.’ 11 And they answered the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.’ 12 Then the angel of the Lord said, ‘O Lord of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?’ 13 And the Lord answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me. 14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion. 15 And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster. 16 Therefore, thus says the Lord, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the Lord of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.