Growth | Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

tubish vad is called the new year for trees because although it's the middle of the winter and there are no fruits that are on the tree yet but the sap that will produce the fruit has grown up gone up from the roots all the way to where the branches are and the idea therefore is that tvat represents the hidden potential within what looks like dormy uh it looks like winter it looks like nothing's happening uh but in point of fact the seeds for growth to mix my metaphors are already there in the s now the mum tell us that based on a in the Torah a human being is compared to a tree and therefore one of the lessons of tuat is that we have to recognize that within each and every one of us and our children and the like there is a hidden potential and even if on the outside that potential is not always visible uh but tuat reminds us that from that hiddenness can come genuine genuine growth