“Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my love.”
(Song of Songs 7:12)
(Song of Songs 7:12)
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| Young Pomegranate Fruit resembles the Star of David - Photo by Josephine Levin © 2012 |
When the
beautiful blossoms fall off the pomegranate bush, the bud that will
become the pomegranate fruit looks exactly like a Magen David, and this
Pomegranate Star is believed to have been the origin of the Star of David.
In Jerusalem
the pomegranate Punica granatum called rimon in Hebrew usually blossoms late May or early June. The pomegranate
is one of the 7 species of the land of Israel.
G-d
commanded that the priests in the holyTemple
in Jerusalem , bet hamikdash, should have pomegranates around the hem of
their robes:
“And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.”(Exodus 28:33-34)SOURCE
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