Schevat
Shevat ( Hebrew שבט) is the fifth month according to the “civil” Jewish calendar and the eleventh month according to the “religious” calendar. It always lasts 30 days. According to the Gregorian calendar , shevat begins in mid-January.
The term "Schevat" comes from Akkadian and means trunk or staff. In the Tanach the name of the month is used once:
“On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month - that is the month of Shebat - in the second year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah , the son of bekiah, the son of Iddos, the prophet”
According to Jewish tradition, the New Year of the trees falls in the month of Shevat . According to the House of Shammai , it falls on the 1st Shevat, according to the House of Hillel on the 15th of the month (cf. Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1,1 ). The latter opinion has become traditional.
