Editing Tu B'Shevat (section)

== Events in Chabad ==

* 1860 - The writing of a Sefer Torah began before the birth of the Rebbe Rashab, following a dream of Rebbetzin Rivka Schneerson, wife of the Rebbe Maharash.
* 1940 - Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe's father, was sent into exile in Chili to serve five years of imprisonment.
* 1942 - The Frierdiker Rebbe returned from Chicago to 770 in New York for the funeral of his mother, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah Schneerson, wife of the Rebbe Rashab.
* 1971 - The Rebbe held a farbrengen on Tu B'Shvat for the first time in Chabad Chassidus history, and called to "conquer the world through Torah study."
* 1988 - The Rebbe's last weekday farbrengen (except for sichos that the Rebbe continued to say while standing at the shtender on the davening bimah).
* 1997 - Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Ramat Aviv was established.
* 2009 - The first Chabad House for travelers in Central America opened on Cozumel Island, Mexico, by the shluchim Rabbi Dudi Caplin and Rabbi Shlomi Peleg.
* 2011 - Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Diskin was chosen as Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Ata.