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"You G*d are the Compassion, the Strength, the Beauty, the Victory, the Splendor, and the Foundation of everything in Heaven and on Earth. " (1 Chronicles 1:29)

"Then the trees of the forest shall sing for joy before G*d..." (1 Chronicles 16:33)

I see Your Face in All Nature that I photograph. - Joy Krauthammer

More TREE quotes at end.

Silk Floss Tree- Ceiba Speciosa

Pomegranates

Tree Alignment with Me

composite © Joy Krauthammer

http://sephirathaomer.blogspot.com/2015/03/restriction-within-foundation-day-37.html

Pear Tree bud blossoms

Pear Tree blossoms

Barren Tree under Blue Sky

Holy Spirit

Cypresses & Shadows Nature Photo Walk

Holy Spirit

Tree Trunk

Shin Tree

Holy Spirit

Liquid Amber styraciflua

Holy Spirit

Liquid Amber styraciflua

Holy Spirit

Red Leaves Liquidambar styraciflua Tree

Street

Praying

by Mary Oliver

It doesn’t have to be

the blue iris, it could be

weeds in a vacant lot, or a few

small stones; just

pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try

to make them elaborate, this isn’t

a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which

another voice may speak.

Liquidambar styraciflua

Skip in Joy

Fall's fallen red leaves

make my heart skip a beat

and my feet

skip in joy.
- Joy Krauthammer

Liquidambar styraciflua

Love lone Liquidambar styraciflua,

sweet gum tree in Santa Monica.

Five pointed leaves turn crimson, flutter down.

Their fruit-- spiky, prickly hard round pods,

hang over my parked car.

On a thick foggy fall,

early Sunday morning

as I squat on the damp ground

and photograph beauty,

walkers go silently past.

Do they see the brilliant red leaves

solely on this tree?

- Joy Krauthammer

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Pine Tree Blue Lights

Sunset Pine Trees

Sunrise Sun Palms

Sunrise Palms, Cypress

Garden of Joy

Santa Monica 18th St. tree top

Santa Monica 18th St. tree trunk

Santa Monica 18th St. tree roots

Super Full Moon Kislev

Hawk atop Pine Tree

Sago Palm Seed Pods

Edith's Garden

Grapefruit Tree

Garden of Joy

Orange Tree

Garden of Joy

Sunset Tree and Bird

Sunset Fig Tree

Sunrise Fig Tree

Fig Tree Sunset Clouds

Sunset Bare Tree and Clouds

Sunrise Palms and Moon Sliver

Pine Trees

Negative Space

Rain Tree

Sunrise Trees

Brandeis-Bardin

Tree

Lake Balboa

Sunset Pines

Tree

Sunrise Tree

Figs Tree

Fig against Sunrise

Golden Tree

Golden Tree and Bare tree

Tree, Santa Susana Mountain 1

Tree, Santa Susana Mountain 2

Tree, Santa Susana Mountain 3

Pine Tree Sunrise

Garden of Joy

Pine Tree

Sunrise through Pine Tree

Trees

Garden of Joy

IPG week 36 2006

Felled Pine Tree Rings 42 years old

Unusual to see the freshly cut tree and only at THIS moment with sap tears. Shot other angles with zoom but was very difficult because of all the big adjacent logs blocking each other and debris from 8 felled sick tall big trees, and minutes before dump truck arrived early morning.

Very messy with the sticky sap that ruins clothes. I was in PJ's at edge of someone's private property.

Felled Pine Tree Rings 42 years old

Tearing

Felled Pine Tree Rings 42 years old

Flowering Pear

Tree Seed Pods

Tree Seed Pod

Bottlebrush

Tree Bark New Life I

Tree Bark New Life II

Tree Bark

Tree on Foggy Day

Tree on Cold Morning

Rain Drops

Trees in Distance
Lake Balboa
© Joy Krauthammer 11.2014

Red Leaves Tree

Liquidambar styraciflua

Fig Tree, Gratitude

Garden of Joy

Figs on tree in fall, not summer

Garden of Joy

Figs on tree

Garden of Joy

Figs on tree

Garden of Joy

Figs on tree

Garden of Joy

Figs on tree and harvested

Garden of Joy

Pomegranate Tree

Brandeis-Bardin

Due to climate change, this tree is producing at different season. Normally October is harvest.

Pomegranates

Gilla's Garden

New grapefruit on tree

Garden of Joy

Liquid Amber Gumball Tree

Lake Balboa, LA, CA

Peppertree Land, Brandeis-Bardin

Palms, Brandeis-Bardin

Edith's Palm Trees

Palm Trees

Woodley Park

Palm Trees

Woodley Park

Palm Trees

Woodley Park

Palm Trees

Woodley Park

Palm Trees

Woodley Park

Palm Trees and Moon almost New

Edith's Garden, Golden Hour

Palms 1

Edith's Garden

Palms 2

Edith's Garden

Palms 3

Edith's Garden

Palms 4

Edith's Garden

Palms 5

Edith's Garden

Palm Trees

Edith's Garden

Palm Trees

Edith's Garden

Palm Trees

Edith's Garden

Palm Trees and Sunburst

Edith's Garden - 52 Frames

Sunburst Tree

Temple Ramat Zion

Dancing Lady

Temple Ramat Zion

Tree

Grapefruits Sunburst

Garden of Joy

Pine Trees

Seen from Garden of Joy

Palm Trees

Seen from Garden of Joy

Shadows

Woodley Park

Between Worlds

Woodley Park

gift to Eve

"The truer you can be to who you really are, the thinner the veils between worlds become.”

May you be blessed for your "veils between worlds" to transform from opaque to transparency.

Trees and Stream

Woodley Park

Trees

Oregon

Gift to Eve

Trees

Mollala River, Oregon

gift to Eve

Palm Tree Dates

Perek Shira: The Palm is saying,

"The righteous flush like the palm tree, they grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Psalm 92:13

Palm Tree Dates

Perek Shira: The Palm is saying,

"The righteous flush like the palm tree, they grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Psalm 92:13

Palm Tree Dates

Perek Shira: The Palm is saying,

"The righteous flush like the palm tree, they grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Psalm 92:13

May we be blessed to have the strength of the palm trees,

to bend in the wind, to receive joy of the sweet fruits,

and the golden hour's Light at sunset.

Purple Jacaranda Tree

Trees, Children's Slide

Maryland

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost 1922

My interpretation of the photo's metaphoric imagery for poem's last symbolic stanza is that
"woods"/ageing/death/Makom arrive, and connotations can be inviting.
But as a grandma, personally I have sooo much to 'be' in the present and 'do' in future
with my one year old granddaughter.
With a smile, SLIDE into miles of Life with camera in hand!
- Baby Boomer Bubbie, Joy Krauthammer

Trees, Slide, Maryland

Trees

Fig Tree SunStar

Garden of Joy

Oak Tree SunStar

Santa Susana Pass, State Historical Park

SunStar

Oregon

Brandeis-Bardin

Pepper Tree Lane, Brandeis-Bardin

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2014/09/joyous-nature-photo-walk.html

Pepper Tree Lane, Brandeis-Bardin

Eucalyptus Trees, Brandeis-Bardin

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2014/09/joyous-nature-photo-walk.html

Pepper Tree, Brandeis-Bardin, AJU

Erev Rosh HaShana 5pm

Pepper Tree Lane, Brandeis-Bardin, AJU

Erev Rosh HaShana 5pm

Shin Tree

House of the Book, Brandeis-Bardin Institute

Shin Tree, Brandeis-Bardin Institute

Peacock in Old English Oak Trees

Brandeis-Bardin Institute

Peacocks in Old English Oak Tree,
Brandeis-Bardin Institute

Peacocks in Old English Oak Tree
Brandeis-Bardin Institute

Tree, Brandeis-Bardin Institute

Palm Tree
Brandeis-Bardin Institute

Palm Trees

Winter lights and nights, Northridge

Palm Trees

Windy Northridge

The Garden of Eden is saying: "Arouse yourself, O north [wind], and come O south!

Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow out;

let my Beloved come to His garden and eat of its precious fruit." (Song of Songs 4:16)

Sunset, Edith's Palm Trees 7

Northridge 7.25.2014

Perek Shira, chapter 3: The Palm is saying,

"The righteous flourish like the palm tree, they grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Psalm 92:13

Tree Roots

UCLA

Tree Roots

Santa Monica

Tree Roots

Santa Monica

Anthropomorphic? Looks like human lying down. Or pre-historic human.

Tree Roots

Santa Monica

Eucalyptus Tree Bark

Santa Monica

Eucalyptus Tree Bark

Santa Monica

Eucalyptus Tree

Santa Monica

Tree Bark, Brandeis-Bardin Institute

PalmTree Bark

Fig Tree

Sunrise Garden of Joy

Sunset Palms

Northridge

Coconut tree

Costa Rica

OrangeTree

Garden of Joy

OrangeTree

Garden of Joy

Green Insect on Green Apple Tree Blossoms

Garden of Devora Miriaam

Green Apples and Blossoms on Tree

Garden of Devora Miriaam

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Fig Tree June Bug

Fig Tree

by Joy Krauthammer

Clustered all the way from Gan Eden

beneath giant green leaves,

Figs, when plucked,

exude white sap.

Tender, large, luscious, plump, purple, fresh figs,

symbol of Torah

birthed to enjoy through and through.

In bliss, I lift each sweet sensuous one

up to You.

I taste the mysterious, mystical treasure,

delicate, dry skin and moist flesh,

ripe, bursting forth magenta insides,

awesome to behold, satisfied

I release from the fruit

Holy sparks of life.

I can feel them twinkle

in my mouth and travel within me.

Figs on the tree, I bequeath

for G*d's other creatures,

as Boaz did for Ruth, the Moabitess,

to glean and feast in joy.

I prune Your trees

and share fig scions,

barren branches filled with potential,

for others to plant

to grow their own fig tree.

On Tu B'Shvat

with flowing sap

may roots be blessed to grow

and buds to blossom.

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-poems-from-joy-krauthammer.html

http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/626326/jewish/Manna-From-Heaven.htm
http://joys-garden.blogspot.com/2011/08/joy-krauthammers-photos-and-collage.html

"In that day (of Torah and peace)...everyone will invite his friend in fellowship under his vine and under his fig tree." (Zechariah 3:10)

I love celebrating Tu B'Shvat, the birthday of the trees.

Each year I give away hundreds of baby fig trees.

I love it when new mamas send me photos of their baby trees and FIGS. :)

- Joy Krauthammer

Fig Tree, Garden of Joy

Beloved FIG TREE

before taking entire right top

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FIG TREE AT SINAI

- Joy Krauthammer

My 32 years old,

double trunk

Mission Fig tree

at sunrise,

filled with potential

stood proudly against the sky

two days before

I cut down the entire top of 'right' trunk.

This devoted fig tree

must have been at Revelation.

Feel its holy Essence,

its power, loving soul and Source.

My responsibility as 'Fig Mama':
to protect

and save the beloved tree

from totally uprooting.

I must take down half

of its remaining top,

the entire top of right trunk.

Blessed, heavily fig-laden in the summer

one trunk bends toward the ground.

With grief today,

at the tree's base

I stood and was strong

as its body and beauty were felled.

I breathe deeply in great sadness,

shock and horror

at the amputation of its large limb.

I had to choose to save

longer, healthier life for the whole fig tree

with two trunks

and not only lightly prune

the dormant branches.

At shul tomorrow

I shall give the congregants,

the limbs of a tree that was at Sinai.

Dozens of straight, foot-long,

thick, barren branches,

buds pregnant on tips

with sap beginning to flow

are chosen, pruned, and gifted.

Lev Eisha women, the new Fig Mamas,

will plant, nurture and grow fig trees.

The women and their daughters

send me photos of cherished figs,

miracles from a once barren branch.

Again this year, to honor Tu B'Shvat,

the fig tree gives its present, its gift

to the future

from generation to generation.

May my fig tree survive the surgery

and again next year,

give us its heavenly fruit.

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2/1/13 Parshat Yitro

PHOTOS:

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/02/fig-tree-at-sinai.html

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FIG PHOTOS

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Fig Tree

Hummingbird on Fig Tree

QUOTES

"Then the trees of the forest shall sing for joy before G*d." - 1 Chronicles 16:33

"Let the field exult, and all that is therein; then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy!” - Psalm 96:12

“A human being is a tree of the field” - Deut. 20:19

"Torah is “a tree of life to them that hold it fast.” - Proverbs 3:17-18

Perek Shirah: The fig tree proclaims, “The one who guards a fig will eat its fruit.” (Mishelei 27:18)

"She who guards the fig tree eats the fruit." - Proverbs 27:1 נֹצֵר תְּאֵנָה, יֹאכַל פִּרְיָהּ

"Torah compares to a fig tree; Figs on a tree do not ripen all at once, but a little each day. Therefore, one keeps finding new figs in the tree each day. So too with Torah: The more one studies each day, the more knowledge and wisdom one finds." - Eruvin 54a

Everyone will sit under their vine and fig tree and none shall make them afraid;
for the Lord of Hosts has spoken. - Micah 4:4

"In that day (of Torah and peace)...everyone will invite his friend in fellowship under his vine and under his fig tree." - Zechariah 3:10

And G-d said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit trees yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is on the earth," and it was so.  And the earth blossomed with grass, herbs and trees, and G-d saw that it was good. - Bereshit 1:9-13

Happy is the man ... his delights is in the law of the Lord,  and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a  tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in  its season, and its leaf does not wither.  - Psalms 1: 1-3

Israel is like the date palm, of which none is wasted; its dates are for eating, its lulavim are for blessing; its fronds are for thatching; its fibers are for ropes; its webbing for sieves; its thick trunks for building - so it is with Israel, which contains no waste. - Bereshit Rabbah 41

No part of the date palm is wasted:  The fruit is eaten,  the embryonic branches (lulav) are used for the Four Species of Sukkot,  the mature fronds can cover a sukkah,  the fibers between the branches can make strong ropes,  the leaves can be woven into mats and baskets,  the trunks can be used for rafters. Similarly, no one is worthless in Israel:  some are scholars,  some do good deeds,  and some work for social justice.   - Midrash Numbers Rabba 3.1

And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds  of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but  they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them  flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their  leaves for healing.  - Ezekiel 47:12

While the sage Choni was walking along a road, he saw a man planting a carob tree. Choni asked him: "How long will it take for this tree to bear fruit?" "Seventy years," replied the man. Choni then asked: "Are you so healthy a man that you expect to live that length of time and eat its fruit?" The man answered: "I found a fruitful world because my ancestors planted it for me. Likewise, I am planted for my children."

Shimon bar Yochai taught that “if you are holding a sapling in your hand, and someone says that the Messiah has drawn near, first plant the sapling, and then go and greet the Messiah.” - Avot d’Rebbe Natan 31b

When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees, wielding the ax against them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human to withdraw before you under siege? Only trees that you know to not yield food may be destroyed; you may cut them down for constructing siege works against the city that is waging war on you, until it has been destroyed. - Deut. 20:19-20

For as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people. - Isaiah 65:22

R’ Abba taught: There is no greater revealing of redemption than that which the verse states: “And you, mountains of Israel, you shall give forth your branches and you shall bear your fruit for my people Israel, for they shall soon come.” [Ez. 36:8] - Talmud Sanhedrin 98a

"My teacher [the holy Arizal] used to say that one must intend while eating the fruits [at the Tu B'Shvat Seder] to repair the sin of Adam who erred by eating fruit from the tree." - Rabbi Chaim Vital

In order to serve God, one needs access to the enjoyment of the beauties of nature - meadows full of flowers, majestic mountains, flowing rivers. For all these are essential to the spiritual development of even the holiest of people. - Rabbi Abraham ben Maimonides, cited by Rabbi David E. Stein in A Garden of Choice Fruits, Shomrei Adamah, 1991

"[The Torah compares humans to trees] because, like humans, trees have the power to grow. And as humans have children, so trees bear fruit. And when a human is hurt, cries of pain are heard throughout the world, so when a tree is chopped down, its cries are heard throughout the world." - Rashi

“On Tu B’Shevat most of the winter rain has already passed, and the roots of the trees begin to suckle from the new rains of the current winter, and no longer suckle from last year’s rains.” - The Jerusalem Talmud

The tree of life has five hundred thousand kinds of fruit, each differing in taste. The appearance of one fruit is not like the appearance of the other, and the fragrance of one fruit is not like the fragrance of the other. Clouds of glory hover above the tree, and from the four directions winds blow on it, so that its fragrance is wafted from world’s end to world’s end.” - Yalkut Bereishit 2

“The breath of life”…of course that is Its name. We breathe, and the trees breathe. We breathe in what the trees breathe out. So we breathe each other into existence: We, and the galaxies, and the arrays of science and the codes of law and the plays of music, we are breathing each other into existence. And the breath, or course, goes in a cycle. - Arthur Waskow, Rainbow Sign, co-author of Tree, Earth, and Torah

“Then the trees of the forest will sing out” and the tree of the field will raise a branch and make fruit, day by day; “And [then] you will take from the first of all the fruits of the ground [on Shavuot] to bring the first-fruit offering (bikurim בכורים) before the altar of YHVH” with praise and thanks.

In Hebrew, the word for sap is saraf, which means fire. Shevat is a time of warming the world, and Tu B’Shvat is a day to welcome and honor the sap—the water in the trees that allows life to return. Tu B’Shvat represents the rising life force as the year moves toward spring—this day is a celebration of the inner fire that waits to burst into air.

"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned,

only then will we realize that one cannot eat money."
- Native American saying

1 comment:

Aryae CoopersmithDecember 16, 2013 at 6:09 PM
Joy -- beautiful and poignant poem/story/image.
Painful choice in the service of life.

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