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Tu BiSh’vat is a Jewish holiday in the Hebrew month of Sh’vat that marks the “New Year of the Trees.”  Tu BiSh’vat is not mentioned in the Torah.   Its source can be found in the writings of our Sages in the Mishnah, in Maseches Rosh HaShanah: “There are four new years: The first of Nisan is the new year for kings and for pilgrim festivals; the first of Elul is the new year for tithing of cattle; the first of Tishrei is the new year for years, for sh’mitah and yovel, for planting and for vegetables; the first of Sh’vat is the new year for trees, according to the ruling of Beis Shamai.   Beis Hillel, however, places it on the 15^th of that month.”  We follow the rulings of Beis Hillel for two main reasons:

Manashe Khaimov, MSW, Speaks with the Queens Jewish Link

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Shuvu kicks off Mission: Siyum with an exciting virtual event!

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Participants from all across the United States and Israel went online to pay their respects to Moreinu HaRav Mordechai Shraga Feivel ben Shmuel Shabsai HaLevi, Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld zt”l, on the shloshim of his p’tirah, January 12.

If I told you that my friend FaceTimes me when she’s bored and fills me in on her day, you might think she’s like any other phone-loving teenager. If I said she has super trendy glasses and bangs I wish I could pull off, you might wonder if she’s interested in fashion. If I explained that we see each other every week, and love hanging out, you might ask if we go to school together.

 Baruch Dayan HaEmes. In the days before the pandemic, Reb Mechel Schiffenbauer, a"h, gave the Daf Yomi shiur in the beis medrash at Agudath Israel of America's national headquarters in Manhattan at 42 Broadway. This photo depicts the widespread acceptance of the class. Of note, one of the shiur’s attendees on this particular day was Chaver Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rosh HaYeshiva of Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia. Reb Mechel, a talmid chacham of great magnitude, gave the shiur at the Agudah for over twenty years, in addition to delivering two other Daf Yomi shiurim daily.

Y'hi zicro baruch.