Does leaving loaves of bread under trees mean anything in the Jewish faith?
I am not an Orthodox Jew, but my father was raised by Orthodox parents. I never heard of a custom to do with this relating to Judaism. Growing up, once a week my parents would go to the bakery and buy entire trays of day old loaves of bread for pennies on the dollar. My Dad would take the trays downtown to an apartment building where low-income elderly folk lived and give away whatever they would take, then he would bring home the rest to us for use to feed the birds and other animals in the backyard. Some of it I would throw out in small pieces, but we usually had one or two loaves that we placed on some blocks under a tree to watch the birds come to tear chunks out of the loaves. I remember watching the birds eating that bread in the mornings when I was eating my cereal before school and just had a flashback of watching a crow tear off chunks of bread, take it to the birdbath and dip it in and fly off with the wet bread. A blue jay was watching intently, turning its head side to side
