Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 8:11 takes a verse every child knows and slips a piece of mystical geography into it. The dove returns at evening. She carries a fresh-plucked olive leaf in her beak. And then the Targum adds a detail the Hebrew never says: she had taken it from the Mount of the Meshiha — the Mount of the Messiah.
Which mountain is that? Jewish tradition identifies it with the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, the place later prophets would say the future King would one day stand. The Targum is reaching across thousands of years. It is saying that the first green thing to reappear after the Flood, the first sign that the earth would live again, was a leaf plucked from the very mountain where redemption will one day arrive.
This is Aramaic midrash at its most tender. The dove is not random. The olive branch is not random. The whole Flood was quietly pointing toward a future healing. Every olive tree in Israel, the Targum whispers, is a descendant of that one leaf. The takeaway: when the world is starting again after ruin, listen to what the dove brings. She is carrying the first green word of the geulah, the redemption still being written.