5 Lo (no), I tell you, but unless you make teshuva, you will all likewise perish.
6 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking this mashal. A certain man had an etz te'enah (fig tree) which had been planted in his kerem, and he came seeking pri (fruit) on it, and he did not find any. [YESHAYAH 5:2; YIRMEYAH 8:13]|
7 So he said to the keeper of the kerem, Hinei shalosh shanim (three years) I come seeking pri on this etz te'enah (fig tree) and I do not find any. Therefore, cut it down! Why is it even using up the adamah (ground)?
8 But in reply he says to him, Adoni, leave it also this year, until I may dig around it and may throw fertilizer on it,
9 And if indeed it produces pri in the future, tov me'od (very well); otherwise, you will cut down it [Ro 11:23].
10 Now in one of the shuls Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim on Shabbos.
11 And an isha which had a ruach hamachla (a spirit of an infirmity, illness) shmonah asar (eighteen) years was bent double and was not able to straighten up at all.