How to Bring Mashiah
Arthur Waskow
1973
1. “If you’re planting a tree and you hear Mashiah has come, first finish planting and then run to the city gates to tell him Shalom” (Yochanan Ben Zakkai).
Therefore: Plant a tree somewhere as a small tikkun olam—fixing up the world—wherever the olam most needs it. Plant a tree in Vietnam in a defoliated former forest. [ . . . ]
Plant a tree in…
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