This Shabbos we will also be marking the first of Shevat.
Click on the link below to read about the significance of Rosh Chodesh Shevat, the day Moshe Rabenu began relating the book of Devarim(Mishne Torah) to the Israelites.
"The later Sages have, therefore, said that the first of Shevat is comparable to the day of the giving of the Torah. Just as the sixth of Sivan, on which the Torah was given to Israel, remains forever suitable for the renewed acceptance of the Torah, similarly is the heart of the Jew newly receptive to the Torah on the first of Shevat, because on that day they began to receive the Book of Devarim from Hashem, through Moshe.
Because the period of transmission of the Book of Devarim was this thirty-seven day interval, all the days from the first of Shevat until the seventh of Adar are especially well suited for renewed inspiration in the study of Torah and the doing of Mitzvot."
http://www.ou.org/chagim/roshchodesh/shevat/default.htm
Wishing you a good Shabbos and a Chodesh tov.
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