Bellflowers can be very aggressive; I don’t know if this one is a weed, and being a weed is sort of a subjective judgment (“a rose is a weed in a potato patch”). Rapunzel (= rampion) is a bellflower: campanula rapunculus.

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According to Midrash Tanchuma (Nitzavim 3), all Jews—past generations, those alive at Sinai, those yet to be born, and even future converts—were present at Sinai and received their share of Torah.

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On Yom HaShoah, we may therefore reflect on having stood at Sinai together with those who perished in the Holocaust, and we may choose to stand with them still. זִכְרוֹנָם לִבְרָכָה. עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי.

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You are a righteous man, made so by the combination of your kind and inquisitive nature and your profound immersion in Judaism. Your strong personal identity is rooted in your Jewish identity. Pick your favorite tree metaphor. That’s you.

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