Stand with Other Tribes (Yom Kippur 5780/2019)
Our city of Athens is home to the tree that owns itself, but in a forest in New Zealand, there is a greater curiosity. There is a tree stump that has no leaves, no stems, and no greenery that is somehow still alive. It’s alive because the kauri trees that surround it rerouted its system of roots so that they could be hydraulically coupled with the stump, keeping it alive.