Happy New Year!!!!!
Don’t be so surprised. Because today is one of the four new years that exist in the Hebrew calendar. (The others are the first day of Nisan, right before Passover, which is the new year for kings and festivals; the first day of Elul, the new year for tithing; and the first of Tishrei, which we all know as Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.) Tu B’Shvat, today’s new year, is when the earliest blooming trees in the State of Israel begin their next fruit-bearing cycle.