Trees show first signs of regeneration.
While Hanuka completes the cycle of preceding months, Shvat features the first flowering of processes renewed in months to follow. Significant Dates 2 Yahrzeit of the Holy Rebbe Reb Zusya Lipman of Anipol, 5560. At a wedding, the Rav of Anipol asked the Rebbe Reb Zusya why Zusya was given all the honors that he, the Rabbi, had expected to receive himself. Zusya, expecting nothing, arrived early. Meanwhile the celebrants, seeing the Rabbi hadn't arrived, asked Zusya to arrange the wedding instead.