Teaching Excerpts

Fig Tree

...Cities serve as economic, cultural, and spiritual centers; however, from
the holistic perspective of the Torah, cities must provide their residents with
a connection to nature and with the opportunity to cultivate the earth. Even
urban dwellers are to experience the following messianic blessing: 'They shall
sit, each person under his vine and under his fig tree.'

Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen

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Reb Yosef's teaching on Torah and Arts found here.

http://joys-art.blogspot.com/2009/11/arts-torah-teachings.html

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