Musing on Trees Begins :)

1 Shevat 5766.

Starting to muse on trees. Aquarius, the water bearer, bringing the water of life to the roots of the tree which is the Tree of Life. Torah is referred to as Etz Chaim also.
I like the way trees look silhoueted against the sky. It all goes back to marking time for the harvest, dun'n't it.
This is the 7th year i've been noticing that trees are leaving the planet. hmmmmm.
{ha i still have my fiber optic tree going. it is fascinating, because the colours do not reveal the same as they did during the holiday season. hmmmmm. in my inner eye, The Tree is ablaze with glowing energies as are we. Lots and lots of lights alive. I built one in a virtual reality once. it was pretty. I named it Tree of Life :D}.

The seven kinds of fruit found in Eretz Yisrael are wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranites, olives and dates.

bloopers and poopers i can't get the pic up for a change. ah well. i know my way around that now. i just have to do it in a separate post.

Here is the first tree quote. Our similarities are greater than our differences ya know. And I Will Continue To Maintain that THE SUM OF THE PARTS IS GREATER THAN THE WHOLE.
Quantum physics tells us that.

An ancient Arab legend relates:

During the rainy season, man and beast shiver from the cold and await expanses for grazing. And now Allah arises in his great compassion and brings down for them from heaven three burning coals.

The first ember is the ember of the air. It descends on the seventh of Shevat and warms the air. On the fourteenth of Shevat Allah brings down from Heaven the second ember, the ember of water. When it descends the water warms up, and enters the trees and restores them to their blossoming and fertility. The farmer counts an additional seven days, and then Allah brings down the third ember, the ember of land. The earth warms up and is covered with soft grass.

Rav Hai Gaon said: "It would appear from this that Tu bi-Shevat is the New Year for trees, for it is close to the day of the 'second ember' which is called in the language of the Ishmaelites aljamara al-thaniye, in which the trees are moistened and begin to drink. This is close to Tu
bi-Shevat of the solstice, and it is fitting that it should be the New Year for trees."

The 13th-century Arab geographer Qazwini states in his cosmography that on the day following the second ember, the fifteenth of Shevat, roses, jasmines, and narcissus are planted.

(Sefer ha-Moadim [The Book of Festivals])
Copyright (c) 1996 by The Jewish National Fund, Department of Education.


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Trees don't kill each other.

Peace

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