They are beautiful yellow flowers, adding a bit of color to an otherwise brown field of vision.  Small, yes, but plentiful...and a crisis of faith?  The broccoli in our Urban Garden has "bolted" and is now producing flowers instead of vegetables.  While our first instinct might be to shake our head at the irony of it being too warm in Seattle for these early plants, this week's Torah portion translated the problem rather differently  In Behar-Behukotai, we read: "If you follow My laws and faithfully observe My commandments, I will grant your rains in their season, so that the earth shall yield its produce and the trees of the field their fruit."  Did our broccoli plants respond not to natural conditions but to the transgressions of its planters?

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