Page 3 - Issue 19

EDITORIAL

This week we celebrated Tu Bishvat, which is the perfect
excuse for sharing the following text:

“The firmness of the tree is not rooted in its
branches and leaves and the glorious fruits,
but rather in its roots, which are fortified in a
place where the winds and storms cannot
reach. They are maintained by a source of
fresh water of regeneration. The tree does not
worry when storms attack it, shake it and
bend it, it does not move nor budge, and as
long as it is not uprooted, it will be revived!
Therefore, we find that the tree does not lose
a thing, on the contrary – its energy is
reinforced in the struggle. So is a person. As
long as one clings to one’s spiritual roots, no
wind will uproot you. On the contrary, the
storms will awaken the power of renewal!”

Rebbe Shimon Rafael
The pictures from machaneh in Aotearoa-New Zealand fill me
with hope – hope that the Movement has energy, and despite
the ‘storms’, possesses ‘the power of renewal’.

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iton@habonimdror.net

Aleh Ve’Hagshem,

Anton