Tu Bishvat in the Snow

It is important to note that there is a distinction between grieving a person and grieving a reality.

The rabbinic sage Elisha ben Abuya witnessed an obedient and pious boy fulfill the mitzvah of sending away the mother bird, as per the Torah’s instructions. He ascended the tree, shooed away the bird, collected the eggs and then fell to his death.

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