Excerpted from The Final Exam: Letters to Our Students by Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman:
That is what Hashem is asking us to do with this one amazing life we have, with our tree of life-- to nourish and to be nourished, to grow and help others grow, to bring gifts out into the world with kindness, and to use all of this to advance and improve the world.
The image of a tree provides a framework from which to understand our values, both individually and collectively. No one core value exists without the other. Each is interconnected and balanced by the others.
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