By: Amots Dafni and Saleh Akel Khativ
Barkhem is a plant with a very reputable name (although its cultural relative is much more wonderful than it). In the Bible, saffron is mentioned once, "I sent you an orchard of pomegranates with fruit from villages with narcissus: narcissus and saffron, reeds and cinnamon with all trees
Bitter frankincense and incense with all my heads in the sky." (Song of Songs 4:13-14). The mention of Kharchem with "all my heads in the sky" indicates its great importance. The precious perfume (even today it is the most expensive in spices and is known as
"Saffron"), are produced from the orange-red scars of the flower that develop the special perfume especially after picking and gentle drying.
The winter flower stands out with white flowers when the sepals (when there is no distinction between the calyx and the sepal, they are collectively called sepals) have a purple-brown stripe that runs along them exactly as described "your hair is green to
Let me see the fine line." (See Zelda's poetry below) Baruch Chizik tells the following legend: "When it came to Ashmadai's power to dethrone Solomon from his throne and exile him far away, the trees of Eden in God's garden took shape to their hearts: the pomegranate stopped giving off its scent and the atonement his thoughts; The vine also closed its white crown and collected the golden leaf scars and no longer scattered its fragrant pollen. And Shulamit would go down to kindergarten
to ask for the king and then Bat-Kol would come out and announce: "Gan Ne'ul, my sister is a bride, Gal Ne'ul, Ma'in Tamum." And Shulamit repeats and sings: "The people of the north and the people of Yemen, the filth of my garden, will rejoice in his name, my uncle will come to the garden and eat the fruit of his fields."
And the winds indeed blew and blew, but the flowers did not shed their perfume and their perfumes did not reach Solomon. Solomon was sorry and was upset and crying. What did the Holy One, blessed be He? Ordered the Wild Rooster, and it was too decadent
Night after night in Solomon's garden and tear off the bundle with his fingers while it is closed and bring it to the king. And Solomon would plant and spread it in all the places he wandered. Since then it is common in all the mountains. And where the wild rooster touched his fingers on the leaves of the crown, marks remained - bluish streaks." Baruch Chizik/HaKrachm, Meschiel p.m. 49-50).
The krachm is a "flower of Hanukkah" and stands out as a cup of black light in this season when few plants bloom. The golden-red scars that burn in the heart of the flower are what give the flower its delicate name. What your heart dreams of
The writer leaves it to us, but as the previous narrator did not miss his place in the perfume and love plants:
"A cup of light
Black, frosty.
And fire in his heart -
A boyish hymn.
in his name passes
On the banks of the dream.
And his dream is burning
as a diamond."
(Zeruvabel Gilad / Carchem; Ofer Nohar p. 190).
"The gig is wondering
How are you and those bad words
Live in the same generation.
true friend
whose soul finds comfort from Heaven
You brought heaven to the pit
to restore my spirit.
when i shouted
when my eyes got dark
how did you find me
behind the seven walls
that the goddess in me built
How did you open before?
your green hair
So that I can see the thin line
and relax
Because I will feel how wonderful the works of the Creator are
I look at your warning beauty
and sees signs of helplessness
the title holders
almost faint -
my tiny friend
We both need a lot of mercy."
(Zelda/Cercum of the Fields; all Zelda songs p. 183).
In heaven they are a virtue to restore the soul. In the order of separation, on Shabbat evening, they bless the wine and the light and the perfumes and the candle and the separation "between the holy and the holy, between light and darkness." Rashi was given a taste in the orchards
To the blessing of heaven, because the Sabbath gives a soul to a man, because he ate and enjoyed and rested and was quiet, and on the evening of Shabbat it was taken away from him, because he begins to worry about his livelihood, and therefore it is necessary to smell the perfume to restore his soul and spirit.
The rest leaves him, to alleviate his sorrow so that the next six days of the act will not be shaped in his memory. (Ariel (1960) Encyclopaedia Meir Nativ Ar'ah Havdala pp. 135-136).
It is no wonder, therefore, that the verse "whose soul comes from the Garden of Eden" immediately restores the spirit of the poetess in her distress. The scent of the perfume of your womb is the one she found behind the seven walls she built around her. Turmeric earned a place of honor in the business of magicians precisely among our ancestors as it is written "Amimar said: A ruler of women in the field told me:
He who harmed women with pennies shall say as follows: Excrement boils in a basket named after you, women as pennies ice your ice, your flowers bloom, scatter your spices, the wind blooms like new saffron in your hands, women as pennies" (Babili, Pesachim KI).
Bialik and Rabnitsky explain in the book of the legend: "The great ruler of witches, Karach Karachan, etc., meaning that you will come bald in your hair and the wind will carry the dust of your feet and scatter the spice (signals) with which you are witches, and the turmeric is a kind of perfume (referring to the cultivated turmeric from which the highly perfumed saffron is made) who use it for witchcraft."
Seemingly what is the expensive and rich spice of the balsamic and witchcraft business?
In the encyclopedia dedicated to "Magic Plants" it is written "Mishra Karkhum is drunk to predict the future". There is evidence that in the Middle Ages nuns in Western Europe grew saffron in their gardens, they ate generous amounts of it and as a result entered into a trance of religious ecstasy. New findings show that turmeric has hallucinogenic effects (hallucinations) and that eating a certain amount can cause visions and enter a hypnotic state. This is how we got a scientific explanation, after two thousand years, what about "women as pennies", nuns suffering from religious ecstasy and turmeric. According to one of the legends, turmeric first grew from a few drops of a magic potion concocted by the witch Medea in her attempt to restore the aged Iason to his lost youthful strength.
Poison for the human body