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Tu BiShvat 2019
ט״ו בשבט
Tu BiShvat 2019: from the evening of January 20, 2019 until January 21, 2019.
- Begins on the evening of
- Ends
- Length
- One day
- In the Hebrew calendar
- 15 Shevat
- 5779
About the holiday
A date out of the tax code: it fixed the year boundary for tithing fruit, so a harvest could be counted against the right year. Kabbalists in sixteenth-century Safed gave it a seder of fruit and wine, and modern Israel turned it into a tree-planting day. It falls when the almond trees flower, which is as close to spring as a Jerusalem January gets.
Other holidays in 2019
- Purim
- Passover (Pesach)
- Yom HaShoah
- Lag BaOmer
- Shavuot
- Tisha B’Av
- Rosh Hashanah
- Yom Kippur
- Sukkot
- Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
- Hanukkah
The exact candle-lighting time depends on sunset where you are. Check with your local community.