<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">From Talmud Taanit 5b</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16pt; line-height: 20pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">A man was travelling through the desert, hungry, thirsty, and tired, when he came upon a tree bearing luscious fruit and affording plenty of shade, underneath which ran a spring of water. He ate of the fruit, drank of the water, and rested beneath the shade.</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16pt; line-height: 20pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">When he was about to leave he turned to the tree and said: 'Tree, oh, tree, with what should I bless you?</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16pt; line-height: 20pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">"Should I bless you that your fruit be sweet? Your fruit is already sweet.</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16pt; line-height: 20pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">"Should I bless you that your shade be plentiful? Your shade is plentiful. That a spring of water should run beneath you? A spring of water runs beneath you."</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">"There is one thing with which I can bless you: May it be God's will that all the trees planted from your seed should be like you..."</span></font></span></p></div></body></html>