Lying for God

[Mystic]

The tree was the veil, but what was it? That is a debate that has gone on for centuries! Was it a literal tree, or was is the Tree of Tuba the blessed tree, of which Moses then was really being given partial vision of who he himself was, and so it was like a portal mirror to his own soul?

No. Nobody debated what the tree is.
Everybody said that the tree is a tree.

Yes; it was a literal tree.
You are abusing the concept of metaphoric phrases.

I recommend studying this. This "nobody" is not true, many Islamic mystics never took it literally and this was through out history.

The same is true of Judaism and Mystics they had.

Remember also, "tree" is used a metaphor through out Quran, for example the example of a blessed word, also the light verse says it's lit from a blessed olive tree, neither east nor west, and so on and so forth.