THE ROOTS OF THE GREATEST TREE OF LIFE

What color is your parachute? What color is the tree that your parachute is stuck on? The tree of life? The fruit tree. Not to harvest a fruit tree before it is three years of age. Not to destroy fruit trees during time of battle, in a war. Not to harvest on soil that had been used to grow food for more than 6 years (Shemitah) in Israel. To vacate the field, not to grow in the seventh year. To relocate and go to new soil. To leave the grapes in a vineyard that dropped from the vine, for these grapes to remain in the vineyard for the poor to pick up. To donate as charity, 10% of one's income, or 10% of one's harvesting field for the poor so they do not become hungry. They say that they are not angry, they are just hungry. To feed them, then.

An unfortunate workplace situation is to be a Mexican immigrant, a migrant worker in California, to pick oranges off fruit trees, to be paid less than minimum wage, less that $15.00 dollars per hour. To fall from the tree, to break a leg or to die in the fall, without life insurance, without medical insurance, so how do we deal with this plight of the refugee, don't pay him at all? Give him no job at all? Make him legally unable to collect government Unemployment Income checks. 

No green card? No job anywhere. Climbing the fence that keeps you out? It's a prison fence and you have just become a prisoner. To fall off the Ladder of Jacob, to befall a cherry tree. We don't speak or want to speak your language, espanol. Go away or we will shoot you down dead. Climb our Wall if you dare. Jack and the Beanstalk, to find gold at the top, but you are not allowed to make it to the top. Discouraged? Just instead smoke the now legalized pot, marijuana, Mary Jane.

A Wall like the Wall of China, the Great Wall of Israel, the Western Wall, the Wailing Wall. To be the wife now a widow of a Hebrew slave buried in between the bricks of the Great Egyptian Pyramids, but now to be the widow of a Hispanic husband who was shot climbing the Wall that keeps him out of the USA. How many people in your family? Ten? Not even a farmhouse to keep your hen!

Refugees, in ships, the Holocaust, not to land your ship in New York, to must turn back, go back to where you came from, we don't want you. A similar situation experience of the Jewish refugees and the Hispanic refugees. My ship is landing here no matter what you say, we are Americans, we live in America, we now even have a duo-citizenship, citizens of Israel and also the USA. 

What's the problem whose to blame, an Uncle Sam pointing his finger at you, do you feel shame? We want you. Or we don't want you. No, don't climb our fence, Wall or tree, we don't want you we want three, you cannot be free!!!

Our roots are the same as yours, we, all three, or four, are children of Noach, the father of us all. We are one, as in the one God of Noach, the man who was picked to be our one Father, the man who saved the animals, who did not drown or wear a crown. A noble Sage, Prophet, Navi, (not king or queen) so no reason to scream.

The roots of a tree? The roots of our Tree of Life. The roots of Etz Hayyim, The Torah. What makes us different than other religions? We have The Torah. The Greatest of All Trees of Life. My motto? Live and Let Live.