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G-d created everything male and female, including water, in order to for them multiply. All vegetables, aside from wheat do not require "male" waters (Mayin Dechurin) to grow, for they can thrive with "female" waters (Mayin Nukvin) alone, due to their humility.

However, since G-d created wheat as the staple of nutrition, it is elevated above all other vegetables and can be considered as a fruit of the tree and therefore will not produce fruit without "male" waters.

With all of the learning meditations on fruit that we enter into on Tu B’Shevat, the New Year’s Day for Fruit Trees, you may have sweet dreams that may require some of the following Talmudic interpretation!