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| The Planting
Talmud, Taanit 5b
A man was travelling through the desert, hungry, thirsty, and tired, when he came upon a tree bearing luscious fruit and affording plenty of shade, underneath which ran a spring of water... | |
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| Branches
By Tzvi Freeman
Some folks think of people much as we think of cars on a highway: Each with its own origin and destination, relating to one other only to negotiate lane changes and left-hand turns. But people are not cars | |
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| A Tree's New Year Resolution
By Shlomo Yaffe
Did I grow towards the sun, reaching up higher and higher towards that which I can never grasp, but which nurtures me all the same the more I strive towards it? | |
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| The Old Man and the Fig Tree
By Elisha Greenbaum
There is a story in the Talmud of an old guy who was seen planting a fig tree. The people who observed him asked, "Do you really expect to live long enough to consume the fruits of your labor?" | |
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| How A Stupid Little Ruler Saved My Life
By Jay Litvin
What does it mean to be indispensable? For most of my life I've asked myself that question. | |
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| The Human Tree
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
A look at the various parts of the tree -- roots, trunk, branches, leaves, fruit and seeds -- and their corresponding elements within the human being | |
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| The Seven Kinds
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Seven areas of our lives represented by the "Seven Kinds": our humanity (wheat), passion (barley), joy (grapes), intimacy (figs), action (pomegranates), struggle (olives) and tranquility (dates) | |
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| Life's Roots
A Meditation
By Tzvi Freeman
We are trees, living two lives at once... Then there are our roots, deep under the ground, unmoving and serene… | |
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| Wheat & Dates
A Meditation
By Tzvi Freeman
Some grow as wheat of the field, in a single season breaking through the ground and ripening. | |
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| Cuttings
By Shlomo Yaffe
Trees don't talk, but they have a great deal to say. And one of the most amazing things a tree says is about survival | |
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| Twins: a Saga
By Yaakov Paley
For what is man/ But a frame/ Of living wood/ With a bark of flesh/ Whose spent years/ Are carefully recorded/ In the rings of his soul/ To be counted and measured/ When his tree is felled--? | |
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| Packaging
By Yanki Tauber
The whole fruit business is a scam | |
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| Your Child, Your Tree
By Eliezer Shemtov
When you come to think of it, a child needs the very same things a tree does in order to grow: "earth," "water," "sun" and "air" | |
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