Tu B'Shevat Getting Fruity

without seeing you, because you are only a tiny kernel of grain? But reconsider how many grains of wheat or barley, rye or oats, it requires to make the king of foods: bread. Challah, represents Torah, the staff of life, the food that requires ritual purification. Before it, we wash our hands and give thanks... for what? For the ground, the rain and the sun. For all the work, the completiion of labor that entered from the ploughing of the field to the reaping, the milling and the packaging and distribution of flour that is the main component of bread that nourishes our lives and souls.

From you, from your small deeds, we take courage and live each day.

FOOTPRINTS:

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams and springs and fountains issuing from plain and hill; a land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs and pomegrantes, a land of olive trees and honey; a land where you may eat food without stint, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper. When you have eaten your fill, give thanks to the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. Dt 8: 7-10

Rabbi Eliezer the son of Azariah would say: If there is no Torah, there is no common decency; if there is no common decency, there is no Torah. If there is no wisdom, there is no fear of G-d; if there is no fear of G-d, there is no wisdom. If there is no applied knowledge, there is no analytical knowledge; if there is no analytical knowledge, there is no applied knowledge. If there is no flour, there is no Torah; if there is no Torah, there is no flour. Pirkei Avos 3: 17

Kennst du das Land?

Kennst du das Land wo die Zitronnen bluehn,

im dunkeln Laub die Goldorangen gluehn,

ein saufter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht,

die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht.

Kennst du es wohl? Kennst du es wohl?

Dahin! dahin! moecht' ich mit dir, o mein Geliebter ziehn.

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Kennst du das Haus' auf Sauelen ruht sein Dach,

es glaenzt der Saal, es schimmert das gemach,

und Marmorbilder stehn und sehn mich an:

was hat man dir, du arme Kind, getan?

Kennst du es wohl? Kennst du es wohl?

Dahin! dahin! moecht ich mit dir, o mein beschuetzer ziehn.

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Kennst du das Berg und seinen Wolkensteg?

in Hoehlen woehnt der

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