The Seven Species of Israel: A Taste of the Promised Land
Wheat is one of the world’s oldest cultivated grains – and in Israel, it grows across rolling hills and valleys, just as it did in biblical times. It is the grain of sustenance and structure – used in the Temple offerings , baked into matzah at Passover , and braided into challah for Shabbat . It represents abundance , but also the human role in refining the raw gifts of nature . Wheat reminds us: we harvest with our hands, but we nourish with our hearts. Barley matures earlier than wheat and was traditionally seen as the grain of the...