Dvarim 20:19 reads:


  כִּי תָצוּר אֶל עִיר יָמִים רַבִּים לְהִלָּחֵם עָלֶיהָ לְתָפְשָׂהּ
  לֹא תַשְׁחִית אֶת עֵצָהּ לִנְדֹּחַ עָלָיו גַּרְזֶן כִּי מִמֶּנּוּ
  תֹאכֵל וְאֹתוֹ לֹא תִכְרֹת כִּי הָאָדָם עֵץ הַשָּׂדֶה לָבֹא מִפָּנֶיךָ
  בַּמָּצוֹר
  
  When you besiege a city for many days to wage war against it to
  capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against
  them, for you may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Is
  the tree of the field a man, to go into the siege before you?


Rashi explains that the word 'Ki' denotes a (rhetorical) question not a statement:


  Is the tree of the field a man, to go into the siege before you]?: The word כִּי here means“perhaps:” Is the tree of the field perhaps a
  man who is to go into the siege by you, that it should be punished by
  the suffering of hunger and thirst like the people of the city? Why
  should you destroy it?


So the Torah is saying: Is a tree like a man? No!

If so, why do we find that many commentaries try to find connections between man and trees?


Question: 1990s VHS Movie Identification
Answer: This could be the final segment of the Tales From the Darkside movie;


  Lover's Vow : A despondent artist named Preston (played by James
  Remar) witnesses a gruesome murder committed by a gargoyle-like
  monster. The monster agrees to spare Preston's life as long as he
  swears never to speak of what he saw and heard or describe the
  monster's appearance to anyone. The monster vanishes, leaving Preston
  traumatized and confused, but bound by his oath never to talk about
  the incident.
  
  After that night, Preston's life takes many turns for the better. He
  meets a beautiful woman named Carola (played by Rae Dawn Chong), and
  they fall in love, marry, and have two children. Preston's struggling
  art career becomes wildly successful, and life seems promising, but he
  is tormented by memories of his encounter with the monster, and his
  vow of silence weighs on him. One night he breaks down and tells
  Carola about the monster, even showing her a statue he sculpted of it.
  She appears upset; at first Preston assumes she thinks he's lying, but
  then she lets out a heartbroken screech and reveals herself to be the
  very same creature he met that night.


Admittedly it's a male artist, not a female one but everything else in the story fits exactly.



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