Why the Righteous Are Likened to the Palm and the Cedar

Another interpretation: Why are the righteous likened to a date palm and a cedar? Because you find that with most trees, even though they are cut down, if one takes a shoot from them and plants it in another place, they at once spring up. But the date palm and the cedar, once they are cut down, who can raise up others in their stead? Only after many years, and with great toil. So too, if a righteous person is lost from the world, who can raise up another in his stead? Only after several years.