Five of the "Seven Species" (Deut 8:7-8) from my camera (taken in Jerusalem, 21 Aug 2023)
The five fruits: GRAPES, FIGS, POMEGRANATES, OLIVES, and DATES
(The two grains, wheat and barley, are not here)
7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 9 a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper. 10 You shall eat your fill and bless the Lord your God for the good land that he has given you. (Deut 8:7-10)
*note: the Talmud considered dates as “honey”
At the breakfast table in the refectory of the Salesians community of Ratisbonne, Jerusalem, I saw a bunch of fresh dates. Yummy!
I walked through the Machaneh Yehudah Market in Jerusalem and saw the four other fruits: grapes, figs, olives, and pomegranates.
Kommentare