A Rhode Island lawmaker is calling Gov. Lincoln Chafee Governor Grinch after he defied lawmakers and decided that the state would have a Holiday Tree instead of a Christmas Tree.
Rhode Island professes to have the first Jewish congregation in America replete with letters from the first president George Washington, so what better place to make the point about separation between church and state? The State needs to be free from religion.
The Christmas Tree is less repugnant than the cross, but since these two are inexorably linked in a pernicious battle against the Jewish People, neither are trusted. Calling this state tree a Holiday Tree opens up this tradition to new interpretations.
A human being is compared to a tree; the Cabala explains how spiritual trees grow down from heaven with branches heavy with fruit dangling just above the earth – earthly trees grow up necessitating ladders to retrieve the fruit. Both trees need water and care.
These two types of trees indicate two types of human beings. Some people know to eat from the produce of their good deeds while others continually work trying to get closer to God – both ways bring light into the world, illuminating the darkness through giving.
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