Lavi Needleman

it is great to see you again again tell me about the the tree farm tell me what does it mean to be a tree surgeon give us an insight as to the things that you are working on and you are expert in oh first of all i have so many notes from everything that i heard from you so far from rabbi kihan and yourself it's amazing i gotta i wrote this many notes i love it so far thank you you were talking about like you know a person saying i'm not holy i'm not worth anything but look at the trees and look at the laws that apply to the trees if there's one little apple on a very sick apple tree that has a hollow it's you can see right through the tree it's ready to fall apart but there's one little apple left the whole tree has to be saved you can't put up your 20 million dollar development because of that one tree that's how important the one little fruit is the lesson is obvious you have that good in yourself you are worth way more there's no room to say i'm not worth anything i'm not holy because that little apple the little goodness in you could stop the world wow it is worth the work so what i do all day i have tissue above every uh every day of my that's my job every day is too vicious for me that's my benefit what we do is we are handling the feet you know the phases of arbor culture from the little seed to even before the seed the preparation of the groundwork all the way until it's a fully matured tree uh i haven't been around 100 years to watch a tree from start to finish or a thousand years but we handle all aspects of treatment how did you get into it like what what happened you just were always into nature did you did you find it or something that you stumbled into what was what was your path thank you mom and dad they were both retired when i was young my father had a great big little great vineyard in the backyard they were always gardening every day and i picked that up from them wow and and what are some of the projects and things that you've worked on you can share with us tell me tell us a little about your tree farm awesome the tree farm is where we move trees that are in the way of construction usually uh and these are you know we we were we are adapting scientific methods cutting edge to transplant sometimes very large trees and we take them to a property owned by jews yours truly but i bought the farm so that we can move it to a property it will stay in jewish hands forever uh-huh so when you're when you're dealing with certain trees just so i understand this when you're dealing with certain trees the value in at least at least in jewish laws that you can't just knock down truths whenever you want to build doesn't work that way so what's happening is you've got to show up you've got to pull the tree out properly and then you've got to re-establish it in some place that it can it can keep its life and this is right that's incredible like i just want to make sure that we're all getting this that's incredible that god's like don't kill my tree for your for that that apartment building so you've got to roll in and figure out how to dig it deep enough so that the roots i guess are able to get replanted move it to another facility and then give it life again correct what's more amazing is how far people are willing to go to do that i'm just a small player here tell me about people calling me that are willing to stall major multi-million dollar projects because of a tiny little one-foot tree that's in the way i mean i had a whole city block in the bronx on hold we're talking 100 million developments because of some twigs that were allegedly fruits and i was very proud that jewish people are so careful willing to put up everything to respect this part of jewish law wow wow i think it's a part of jewish law that is so understated i i mean we've never really fully engaged in that at this level tell us a little bit about sort of the spiritual side of it meaning the way you're interacting with nature always for people that are sort of urban dwellers right we we see it but like it's not part of us give us like a little bit of an insight maybe there are people i'm sure on this we're blessed with such an incredible group of people that are part of the shabbat show before we continue i want everybody to know one thing very important kahoot's coming on next super important right now as we're talking start fiddling kahoot.it get up get the app open jump on zoom do what you got to do because coot's coming i know you don't want to lose back back to the uh back here you know for somebody who is who is really connected to nature in a much deeper way than most give us an insight as to how that that that works spiritually and and the relationship you have to that from more of a spiritual perspective right the lessons that i see from the trees every day number one foundation is everything after a major storm which trees are falling over the ones that are have poor foundations you spend so much time on top growth and impressing the world but when they have poor erotic foundations those are the ones first ones to come over that's why the gumaras actually says a person should always be yielding like a reed and not strong like a cedar the reed can be knocked down and get back up it's got strong roots but a weaker top right there are trees that are big on top small root systems they can come they can fall down a lot easier wow so beautiful that's one lesson i have a life of lessons to throw out uh interesting you're talking about the hidden growth do you realize that the wind the bending of trees actually causes them to grow a tree that is staked up you ever see a nutrient planted and they're tied up so they can't fall over you must take those off after two years because the bending of the tree cells from the wind actually is what's causing them to grow so it's that pressure those forces against the tree is actually what's spurning its growth what amazing we can do this levy thank you so much for being on we can do this all night so interesting um and we thank you for what you're doing what an incredible thing that you're providing for people that are trying to respect nature as god intended to and you're enabling that to happen we thank you for what you do for for shining your light on this world thank you so much thanks so much for watching for more content like and subscribe and be sure to tune in live every thursday at 8pm eastern at the shabbato.com or right here on youtube