34. On planting trees when Messiah comes)
34. “Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai taught: ‘If you happen to be standing with a sapling in your hand and someone says to you, “Behold! The Messiah has arrived!” First plant the tree and then go out to welcome the Messiah.’” (from Avot de Rabi Natan B 31; The Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan, trans. Anthony J. Saldarini, Studies in Judaism in late antiquity, 11 (Leiden: Brill Archive, 1975), 182.
