Pay special attention to the way the snow glistens, the trees whisper, the clouds scuttle across the sky, the squirrels scamper across the grass. Like grapes that grow in clusters on a vine, we, too, forge and live in communities essential to our well-being. Participate in a town beautification project or create one of your own. Buy trees or plants, invite neighbors and create a ceremony. Besides sending money for planting trees in Israel, buy Israeli products like Carmel tomatoes, Jaffa oranges, jams, chocolates and wines.
Every fruit has some inedible part, but all parts of the fig are good to eat.
All that I created, I created for you. Take small portions of food. From the time of Noah and the flood, the olive branch has been a sign of hope for an enduring future. As olive trees stand firm in all kinds of terrain, so Israel will endure and remain strong no matter what the circumstance. If there is someone you've hurt, near or far, extend the olive branch.