Aren't They Just Luscious?

The Medad grapes are sweet and delicious this year.

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When British Soldiers Enjoyed Grapes of Eretz-Yisrael

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Vineyards Will Nevertheless Be Planted and Not Plucked Up

Have you ever read Amos' prophecy?  This one, 9:13-15 -

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD...And I will turn the captivity of My people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

Some Arabs near us don't take too kindly to those words because on Saturday, our Shabbat, some four dunams of saplings were damaged (pictures here in this Hebrew site) at the vineyards of Achiyah.  Up to a thousand were uprooted and a large section of the sophisticated irrigation system was destroyed.  It will take some three years to restore the damage.

But it will be restored.  For we have decided to replant ourselves in our land and with help, all will be restored: Jewish agriculture, Jewish sopvereignty, Jewish morality.


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A New Wheat Field at Shiloh

After Rabbi Dov Berkovits successfully planted wheat, and nurtured the plot at his house, harvested it and then made rolls, Yona Tzoref decided that a new children's wheat field would be planted.

Here's one picture with the rest here, curtesy of photographer Miriam Feyga Bunimovich:

See you next early summer, around Shavu'ot time, when we read the Book of Ruth with its theme of reaping and gleaning - corn, barley.

I just had to ad more pics:

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