Why doesn't the bark of the tree taste as delicious as its fruit?
Rav Kook in a number of places in his writings discusses the ideal of the etrog, how its bark tastes the same as if its fruit thereby returning to the pre sin natural world, a world where the ideal of the process and means provides the same excitment and sweetness as the end itself.
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