Tu Bishvat — The New Year for Trees
This article first appeared at http://judaism.bellaonline.com Tu Bishvat, the fifteenth of the month of Shvat, is known as the New Year for the Trees. Tu Bishvat is called such because each Hebrew letter has a numerical equivalent—the term Tu in Hebrew is spelled tet vav—tet is equal to nine and vav to six, equaling fifteen. [...]
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