[Nachum]

OK I’m baffled ... in side joke! I’m on the outside, someone fill me in.

The joke is that this is how Orthodox Jews look at Jewish law and the child applied this to the tree :)

[stonehouse01]

Thanks - now I get it!! (cute story- perhaps a future rabbi in the making)

[Springman]

Thanks for the explanation, I was thinking the kid was being brought up to work in the local building dept.

Now, can you explain what wrong with eating pork? I’ve wondered about that for many years?