Beauty, strength and continuity: Edition 25: Trees
The Editor

Under the tamarisk tree: The eshel tree in our Biblical heritage
Nogah Hareuveni

The Sacred Tree: Tree worship in ancient Israel

"Do not destroy" or: Is the tree human?: Two readings of the famous passage from Deuteronomy
Eilon Schwartz

Tree of life and tree of knowledge: An extravaganza of the imagination
The midrash

Trees as messianic symbols: Or: the trees of Eden in Jewish mysticism
Gershom Scholem

"Neither daylight nor darkness": The Old Acacia Tree  (*audio recording*)
H. N. Bialik

Trees and the Man: Two short stories from the midrash

"Because man is the tree of the field": Two poems by Israeli poet Natan Zach

A modern prayer for tree planting

Trees I have loved by the poet Zelda (translation and commentary by Marcia Falk)

Wise, dry, lovely, and fruitful: A Hebrew arboretum