Shevat the month of awakening and flow. During this deep winter month, despite the tree’s appearance as being “dead”, deep within the trees the sap once again begins to flow. In the land of Israel, the flowers are beginning to blossom. Trees are are beginning to regrow their leaves. It is a month of connecting to the rest of the world through the physical. The sense of the month is ‘taste’, of eating. The body part of the month is the throat. On Tu Bishvat, the birthday of the trees that is celebrated during this month we ceremoniously eat the various types of fruit which helps us reconnect and interalize and connection to the physical. During this month Moshe gave his dying speech, reviewing all of the Torah. During this month he also translated the Torah into the 70 languages of the world , teaching us that it is a time to connect to the entire world.