T229 PNC - Certain Trees Are a Segulah for Having Children

There are certain trees that, when used to make a bed, are a segulah (spiritual remedy) for having children and raising them well. And there are trees that have the opposite effect. This teaching reflects the Kabbalistic understanding that all of creation is interconnected — that certain natural objects carry spiritual properties that can facilitate divine blessing or, when misused or misapplied, can hinder it. Rebbe Nachman's world is one where nothing is spiritually neutral. Every tree, every object, every action carries weight in the spiritual accounting of the world.