Tu Bishvat (ט״ו בשבט) — the fifteenth of Shevat, New Year of the trees

Core definition

Tu Bishvat, the fifteenth day of the month of Shevat, is the Rosh Hashanah (New Year) of the trees. The Sefer HaMaamarim corpus — the 81 volumes underlying this encyclopedia — contains no maamar expounding the holiday of Tu Bishvat itself: no discourse on its meaning, customs, or inner significance was found anywhere in the translations.

How the Rebbeim develop it

The sole mention of the date in the corpus is incidental and historical, not homiletical: in a front-matter account of the first aratzis (land-acquisition journey) of the Rebbe Maharash, the date is given as "the fifteenth of Shevat" — a calendrical note, not an exposition of the day's meaning [31667/front_matter :: עב׳ 159–160].

Editorial note. This article is a deliberate stub. The corpus's silence on Tu Bishvat is a genuine gap: the holiday's themes (the tree as the image of man, growth, fruits) are nowhere expounded in the translated volumes. Per this encyclopedia's citation rule, what cannot be sourced from the corpus does not go in. A fuller article will have to draw on sources outside the 81-volume Sefer HaMaamarim set (e.g. Sefer HaMaamarim 5730, which contains the discourses ד״ה ובחמשה עשר יום and ד״ה להבין ענין שמחת תשל" — cited in the corpus's own footnotes but not themselves part of the corpus) [31628/maamar_001 :: עב׳ 708].

Sources

• [31667/front_matter :: עב׳ 159–160] — the date "the fifteenth of Shevat" as the date of the Rebbe Maharash's first aratzis.
• [31628/maamar_001 :: עב׳ 708] — footnote citing the Tu Bishvat discourses ד״ה ובחמשה עשר יום and ד״ה להבין ענין שמחת תשל" (Sefer HaMaamarim 5730, pp. 25, 36), which lie outside this corpus.