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the new year for trees is an
exception what happens on this day and
why do we celebrate it if we were to
celebrate the date when the trees become
adorned with fruits it's
understandable the date we celebrate for
the trees is actually at a time when the
trees are Barren and cold naked orphaned
from their
foilage and orphaned from their produce
yet this day became the Russ sh for
trees what is the meaning of this and
how do we celebrate it we celebrate it
by eating fruits from the tree which at
this point the tree is not capable of
producing what is the message of
this in the land of Israel at this point
most of the Winter's rain has already
saturated the Earth by this day the 15th
day of shat we can be sure that a new
Vitality a new sap ascends into the tree
allowing for its future
Rejuvenation at the surface there's
nothing going on right now but that is
only on the
surface to beat is the celebration of
potential invisible potential but real
and authentic all of the future growth
of the tree is Possible only because of
the sap rising in the tree at the time
of the 15th day of the month of shat the
potential has been created and that is
what we celebrate today at the surface
you say I don't see any change
whatsoever the trees are Barren and
lifeless but precisely at this moment
life secretly started to develop a new
in this tree
you can't always see the fruit but you
could still celebrate the process of
growth itself because the most important
thing in life is to identify and
celebrate the existing potential not
getting frustrated by the process and
Imagining the final product right now to
the point that we already sit down and
we take fruits and we put it on the
table and we
say wait
the trees are dead no no no we don't see
death we see the potential for life and
we already are filled with joy as though
the process has been completed even
though it has not been completed this is
a very comforting message in today's day
many of us are on
lockdown our lives have been
transformed many of us have suffered
significantly with the onset of this
horrific pandemic everyone's life has
been affected there is fear there is
anxiety there are those loved ones who
we had to say goodbye
to and the finality is devastating and
the future seems Bleak nobody knows
what's going to happen will we have this
under control at some point will life go
back to normal and yet I think that this
message of the 15th day of shat teaches
us something very powerful and that is
real
transformation happens in silence real
transformation happens during those
times in our life when it doesn't seem
like a lot of good things are
happening that moment when the trees
celebrate their birthdays are not
moments that at the surface seem so
promising whenever you have have to give
birth to a new reality A New Concept a
new emotion a new experience a new
opening in your life
often you have to
lose everything from the
past the seed cannot morph into a tree
if it's not decomposed if you want that
the seed should be maintained as a seed
on your window seal that's wonderful but
it's never going to be able to be
transformed into a tree it has to go
through the stages of decomposition in
order to be able to be metamorphosized
into something completely new and that
metamorphosis is never visible it's
going to take a lot of time till we're
going to see the results
but don't lose your
enthusiasm and your passion during those
moments they once asked Winston
Churchill what his definition of success
was and church WIll said my the
definition of success is going from
failure to failure without losing
enthusiasm in the process and of course
what he meant is that's exactly how
you're going to
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