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Tu B'shevat Tish 5786 - The Eternal Hope of Being a Tree

3.1K views · Feb 2, 2026

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

A Torah tish on the significance of Tu B'Shevat and the eternal hope of being a tree.

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Okay, welcome everyone. It was our annual tubish fatish. Actually, I wanted to keep it up this year even though it was a busy night. We had two weddings at a yard here from 8 to 9:30. Uh but my grandfather Yeshua Hershvang would always uh facilitate the tubish tishaw for many years. So to keep up the tradition and to try to uh share a new idea uh something we never said over before this morning and last year also we quoted from a safer zered is David of Modina David Zakuto of Medina. He wrote a safer zed and he brings a new idea of what exactly is the sim of uh everybody knows that in it rarely speaks about is only mentioned two times in the whole that you don't say on why exactly what's the we don't say on what's the joy of technically is a just a day It's a line of demarcation that whatever had before was from last year's crop. Whatever has after is from the coming year's crop. What exactly is the sim of so brings a safer? So I was searching searching searching what exactly is the safer I finally found it. is a perro on peri okay and he offers the following idea he says the reason why the is to be and not to say why just because it's a rash in other words nobody says that is a day of

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  2. 1:02in the whole that you don't say on why exactly what's the we don't say on…
  3. 2:03because it's for and we don't gather together to eat cows on onesh we hear the…
  4. 3:06it could re we could regenerate and what you nourish from it what you um what…
  5. 4:08whole it became almost this beautiful unbearable to look at. First we asked the gardener what…
  6. 5:41By the end of the season, the width of the tree had it got bigger. So,…
  7. 6:41"Like the days of a tree are the days of my nation. as a nation is…
  8. 7:46right now claw in the world you know it looks like we're uh we're on a…
  9. 8:49he quotes and which is the ultimate that we're going to eat from and to the…
  10. 9:50starting tomorrow the days get longer we're approaching Nissan you know Nissan already which is the…

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