Trees

Rosh Hashanah, But Not Yom Hadin Ari Enkin, Torah Musings. "Many people mistakenly attribute Tu Bishvat as being the day of judgment for trees.  However, trees are judged on Shavuot, not on Tu Bishvat."

Elegy for a Tree Barry Kornblau, Torah Musings. For the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: A rabbi eulogizes a downed tree.  It is no accident, he says, that Proverbs describes the Torah as a “tree of life.”

The $100,000 Tree Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times. Mindful of the Torah's prohibition against chopping down fruit trees unnecessarily, one man in Brooklyn has avoided uprooting a mulberry tree by building his house around it.