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January 16, 2011 2:47 pm at 2:47 pm
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yitayningwut
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First of all Tu B’shvat is in this month obviously, and The torah compares man, to a tree “Ki H’Adam Eitz Hasodeh”
Sorry, this just happens to be one of my pet peeves. Look up the pasuk and the basic meforshim, you’ll see the pasuk is not comparing man to a tree, on the contrary, it is asking a rhetorical question – i.e. “Is a tree a man?” In the context of the pasuk this is obviously the pshat, for the pasuk is clearly trying to say that “saving the trees” is not as important as human life. Yes I know this all has nothing to do with the thread, but I just couldn’t keep my mouth shut. Or whatever the literary equivalent is. So I apologize to the OP.