Photography in the pomegranate orchard in Binyamina: When the pomegranate ripens – nature heralds the new year

Just before Rosh Hashanah, nature paints itself red

The pomegranate trees are laden with ripe fruit – round, red, and shiny, hanging among the green leaves.
A sight that is difficult to remain indifferent to, especially in a time when we stop for a moment, look back, and seek to turn a new page.

The pomegranate is much more than a festive fruit on the holiday table. Over generations, it has become one of the symbols most associated with Rosh Hashanah and the hope for a good and sweet year.

On the eve of the holiday we congratulate:
"May it be your will...may our rights multiply like a pomegranate."

The image is not accidental. Inside the pomegranate are many hundreds of berries, each of which is small on its own – but together they create great abundance. From here was born one of the beautiful ideas of the holiday: abundance, abundance of rights, blessing and growth.

And the pomegranate also brings with it symbolism of renewal. It blooms, ripens, changes color, and reaches its peak precisely at the time when the Hebrew year turns into a new year.

When I stood in front of this pomegranate orchard in Binyamina, among the trees laden with fruit, I felt that there was something here beyond the beauty of the landscape.

There is a story of time here.

The fruit that has been growing on the tree for months is now reaching the moment when it is ready – precisely at the time when we too stop and seek to ripen, grow, and start anew. Before the elections…

Through the camera lens, I tried to capture this moment: the bright red of the pomegranates, the green surrounding them, the paths of the orchard, and the soft light of late summer.

One pomegranate is a fruit. An entire orchard is already a symbol of abundance.

And at the beginning of a new year, perhaps this is exactly the blessing we should wish ourselves – a year of abundance, health, love, creativity, beautiful moments and good people around us.

May we all have a good and sweet year, a year of renewal and growth, and may our rights multiply like a pomegranate.