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The Central Location of the Tree of Life

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Okay, friends, the tree of life, you always wanted to know where was it located. So, it's a good thing you came to um our this morning. The says the tree of life in middle of the garden. The tree of life in middle of the garden says in middle of the garden it was mish of the garden. It was the epicenter of the garden. The center point is always this equidistant to every edge. Who? What is the meaning of the central location? Since the tree is what provides life, it must be in the epicenter equidistant to everyone. If it would be in the northeast corner, it would be closer to one area. Therefore says the same way the was the middle of the garden the heart is the middle of the body because it is the source of life for all the limbs of the body and it sends the blood which is a soul. So where's the going with this? The the same way the provided life for the whole garden. The same way the heart provides life for all the so the Torah provides life for all the spiritual limbs of man. The Tory is also dwelling in the middle equidistant to everyone because it is the source of life and the life of humans believe. Therefore, the Torah is equidistant to all of Israel. Now, what does mean that the Tory is equidistant to all of Israel? Check this out. Hashem just gave me uh reminded me of another piece in okay we came to this the inbar on the says since thera is in the has to be the same way the was The the had to be not any closer to any says. Why is the bema in the middle of the shul equidistant to everyone in the shul? Because just like the was like the says ginsa theory is the therefore has to be the center point. And this goes like the opinion that Clauso traveled like a tava and the here again uh says since life comes from the heart the heart is in the middle of the body and then there's a footnote by the publisher look in bacious on the he says also look in truma on the puli mikash vishanti the maybe we'll take a look at that on another occasion. So seems to be saying that the Torah in the Bakess is placed in the center point which by the way while the uh reform wanted to move the location of the beimma and we have a tradition the beimma is supposed to be mameish center point of the shul. One of the reasons in the chaser yesterday was that he brings because the beimma represents the misb and the misb was the center of the mishkan. But the is bringing another idea. The beimma is the place where the tora is read. And just like the was the center of the gan and the heart is the center of the body, the tora must be in the center of the gathering of the Jewish people. Okay, have a good day everyone. If you want to hang in one more minute, I want to um