Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends.

Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.

We are destined to be roots, trunks, branches, and wings. When flying is out of reach, we are two hands of dirt closer to infinity.