Today is Tu BiShevat (“the 15th of Shevat”) which marks the beginning of a “New Year for Trees.” This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle....
בּ״ה
"And You did establish to Yourself Your people Israel to be a people unto You forever; and You, L-rd, became their G-d".