Why Do Trees Get Rid Of Leaves ?

A Torah Anytime original series. I'm standing here in the middle of the winter,  surrounded by trees. Tall, strong, alive,   but completely bare. There's not a leaf in sight.  You ever thought about it? Why do trees lose their   leaves every single year? Why would something so  alive choose to just strip itself bare? What's   the point of letting your leaves go? Nature  doesn't act randomly. So why do the trees do   this? Why not keep their leaves for the winter?  The answer is simple and brilliant. A tree knows   that winter is coming. It knows snow will fall and  snow is heavy. If the leaves stay on the branches,   the snow piles up and the weight builds and the  pressure increases until eventually the tree   can crack and collapse and fall. So, the tree  does something remarkable. It lets go of its   leaves. Not because it's weak, but because it's  wise. It gives up its beauty and its fullness,   its comfort in order to survive the season that  could literally break it. Now, here's the fire.   This is not really about trees. It's about us.  There are winters in life, quieter seasons,   colder seasons, time when the inspiration feels  lower, when there are fewer spiritual highs,   there's no yum tim, there's fewer uplifting  moments, and life feels more routine, more heavy,   more still. And in those seasons, it's easy to  start piling things on like distractions and   indulgences and noise and escapes just to feel  something, just to get through. But sometimes   all that weight doesn't help us. Sometimes it  slowly breaks us. The strongest people are the   ones who learn from the trees. Sometimes survival  doesn't come from adding more. It comes from   letting go. Letting go of the extra noise and the  excesses and the habits that weigh down the soul.   Becoming a little simpler, a little cleaner, a  little clearer, a little more real. Holding on   to what actually keeps you standing like your  nishama, your truth, your connection to Hashem.   Because winter is never forever. Spring always  will eventually come. And the tree that had the   strength to let go and the wisdom to shed what it  didn't need doesn't die in the winter. It survives   it. And when the light finally returns, it blooms  again bigger and better than it was before. And   maybe that's the message of the trees standing  behind me. Sometimes in order not to break,   you don't need to hold on tighter. Sometimes  you need to have the courage to just let go.