[Avodah] Praying to angels

[Arie Folger]

R'nTK wrote:
> An analogy to this would be the trees in Bereishis that were supposed to
>  be "etz pri oseh pri" -- the wood and bark was supposed to be edible fruit
>  but the trees "didn't listen" and instead produced inedible trunks.  
> Obviously the trees had no free will and both what they were "supposed" to
> do  and what they actually did do came straight from Hashem with no
> mediating  thoughts on the part of the trees.

The Maharal believes that this command was to show that the trees were 
incapable, as an inherent feature of material beriah, of being both created 
and creator; only humans can.

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