Connecting the Shira to Tu B'shvat - Rabbi Shalom Rosner

this week we celebrate tupeshvat and um the question that we might ask is what can we learn from this holiday besides the halaqa ramifications of our law and jhumas and miceras what message could we take about tu bishfat and can there be a connection between two bespot and any message that we could find from our parsha shabashira the shabbos of kriyasyams yashir rashi notes on the pasik we say from azyashir every morning zekely vyanveyu evoque aviva aroma menu this is my god and i will glorify him eloquent this is my from my father the god of my father now raise him up rashi tells us i'm not the start it goes back from my forefathers what's rashi driving at what's the message of this passage that claudius says later in the torah adam ate one of the ways that we can learn from tupesfat is to learn messages from the trees and from the flowers and one of the messages that the mephirshim explained the bali muslim explained is that a tree has firm roots rooted into the ground if without those firm roots it wouldn't be able to stand the day but also there are branches and also there are blossoms so there are roots and there are branches that's the balance that a jew has to find the delicate balance between on the one hand being rooted in the mesora our personal mesoara of our families our national mesoara of our forefathers llk avi biologically and of course okay avraham isla yaakov but on the other hand we can't just take what we've received we have to take it to our the next step we have to give no we have to make our own branches and and and blossom in a way that maybe our parents and our grandparents did not rabbi lamb once wrote that the s-rogue has a pitum and has an orchids the orchids connects it to the tree and the pitum or where the pittum should be and the ones without the pitum right that's that hangs separately the ukit grounds the pitum it it anchors to the tree that's the hookus but the pitum symbolizes growth and hadar is when we take that okats where we're rooted and then we help it blossom into our own unique way in the world in which we live the abuse implanted this in us in a fascinating way avraham avinu if we think about it he had he didn't have any roots tara right he was all about branches he was all about the blossoming creating something on his own yestakavinu was somehow the opposite everything we know about yitzhak avinu and is exactly what avraham did he focused on the roots he dug the same wells he didn't in the same thing he wanted to go down to mitsrayam like his father went down symbolizes the mesora fully and yaakov is the synthesis we are or we are bene israel we take the roots he took from abram and yitzhak and he created the asterisk something that the other each of the earlier ovo's didn't do that's the symbol of qiyadam adam like a tree has roots and goes forward that's tu b'shvat and that's rashi low anita pila sakadusha it's not i'm not starting it but zeke kaley be unveiled yes okay avi but is that kaylee vyanvehu it's my job to build on what i receive from my fathers and my forefathers and take it to the next step and akareshbaar who believes that we could do it based on another position this week's parasha right before us yashir we say the amir bashem of moshov though repeat southern rights and sitka satsadek just like there's a mitzvah to believe in this mitzvah to believe in ourselves we have to believe that we could do it no matter what the challenges are as we ride this wave of history that's been challenging over the past year for each person in their own way but we have to recognize that esper who believes in us hashem knows that we could do it we could build on our roots and blossom into beautiful flowers in this month of shaft which is all about blossoming let us all rededicate ourselves to learning from the past learning and basing and rooting ourselves in what we've learned the missouri from our parents our grandparents and our great national mesora and then try to figure out ways that we could be creative in our of hashem and our own spirituality in torah and in that way learned the special message of tu bishwat and zekkele have a great job