Description
Ketubah Blend- Dodi Li®™ (My Beloved) Essential Oil Blend
2.5ml (poured into a 5ml bottle)
This blend was first created back in 2002 when my husband I got married in the month of Elul. The blend was sprinkled onto our ketubah canvas, sprinkled onto our Chuppah and on my bouquet of roses and lilies.
The blend recepie was inspired when I was reading several passages of the Shir ha’Shirim (Song of Songs) so I decided to take all my favorite florals with the citron which is the Etrog because our wedding was in the High Holiday season of the year.
All these oils properties are listed in the Holy texts of the tanach (The Bible). I blended them carefully together to create this beautiful unique oil. The ingredients are essential oils of flowers and citrus that are grown and distilled in Israel.
Since that first batch in 2002 we have improved the blend’s formula to greater depths and notes of citrus and floral harmony. Love is not a strong enough word to describe this beautiful blend.
According to Jewish custom, is it especially opportune to get married during the month of Elul. Why Elul, which is marked on the civil calendar in the late summer— typically August or September? It relates to our verse, Ani l’dodi v’dodi li, which when written in Hebrew in acrostic form, reveals a unique pattern.
It’s love and pure happiness in a bottle. Inspired from these verses: Song of Songs 2:16, and 6:3, My beloved is mine, and I am his. He feeds his flock among the lilies. Song of Songs 2:1, I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.Song of Songs 6:7 ,Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate. Song of Songs 8:2, I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house– she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
The first batch I ever made was from oils I obtained in our holy land Israel and created this blend for my wedding day in 2002. This Blend is so inspiring that you will want to share this with you friends who are newly engaged, newlyweds, or already married. It brings balance clarity and is very spiritually uplifting. Enjoy with Fragrant Joy and Aromatic Blessings, Rivka
Ingredients:
Sweet Lily Abs– Rare/ True Mountain Lily grown and from Israel Lilium auratum taken from blossoms . Biblical References: Song of Solomon 2:1,2:2, Hosea 14:5, 2Chron 4:5. Other texts describes lily as the Flower on the Holy Temple Menorah. Spiritual references: Lily innocent and pure, virgin, without guilt. Lily among thorns, righteous a tzadik.
Cistus (Rose of Sharon) from Israel Cistus Ladanifer Rose of Sharon’s Spiritual Significance Song of Sol 2:1 “I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valleys.” Biblical References: Song of Solomon 2:1. Rose of Sharon Hebrew Meaning: 1) meadow-saffron, crocus, rose
Etrog ( Esrog Citron) from Israel- Citrus medica /Peel Spiritual meaning; Etrog is a citron. citrus, “Etrog–because it is written (Psalms 104: 1): ‘You are clothed in glory and majesty.’ (The word translated as majesty is hadar. In the Torah (Leviticus 23:40), the etrog is called the fruit of the goodly tree. Because Etrog is a shape of the woman’s breast. Often referred to life sustaining good fruits of good deeds. The same Hebrew word, hadar, is used in that context to mean goodly.)Etrog refers to the heart, the place of understanding and wisdom.
Henna abs fromIsrael Lawsonia inermi extracted leaves “My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi” – Songs of Songs 1:14 Henna’s Spiritual Significance: The Hebrew word for camphire (henna) means a ransom, with its root word meaning to forgive. In the Middle East, a bride applies the spice of henna as a paste to her hands and feet on the night before her wedding. Biblical References: Song of Solomon 1:14, Song of Solomon 4:13 Hebrew: Henna (Camphire) ransom, 2) asphalt, pitch (as a covering) 3) the henna plant to create dye, 4) small cluster or village
Lotus Abs Nelumbo nucifera This flower is my (Rivka) birth flower. he Lotus flower is often viewed as a symbol of awakening. The reason is that while it grows in muddy ponds of sometimes stagnant water, it blossoms every day with the pre-morning sun and comes with beautiful mud free petals. Its a symbol for purity and joy.
I wanted to have white lotus possibly blue lotus flowers in my boquet since it is my birth flower, but since we could get enough of these flowers during the month Elul so I chose to add it to our blend instead. So my bouquet was filled with roses and lilies and sweet gardenia.
Gardenia Enfleurage/Absolute Gardenia grandiflora x G. jasminoides Most commonly associated with their sweet aroma andwhite hues pinwheel petals, gardenias is a choice for wedding bouquets. That makes sense, since these flowers have several meanings such as love, purity, and refinement.
Most often, gardenia flowers are given as symbols of trust. They show love and respect for a person/partner. They can also symbolize clarity. Gardenia is apart of the coffee species, so it also means strength and endurance as well.
Frankincense Boswellia Frereana known as olibanum (Rare refer to as the King of all Frankincense),– Resin from Northern Moutains of Somaliland Israeli Distilled.
We also added Frankincense b.sacra and Frankincense b.rivae
Biblical References: Song of Solomon 3:6, Song of Solomon 4:6, Song of Solomon 4:14
The Hebrew lebonah means incense, which is Frankincense. There are five other places in the Tanach (Bible) where lebonah was translated incense, meaning Frankincense. The Hebrew word for Frankincense means pure or white. This is because of the milk-colored drops of aromatic resin that flow from the slashed inner wood of the tree. Spiritual Significance: purity to be spotless. White garments of light.
Rose Abs– rosa centifolia from Israel known as “Negev Rose ” My absolute favorite species of Rose. This rose is just Amazing in aroma and extremely rare. Beautiful Pure Essential oil from this rose is an orange-brown to orange-yellow viscous liquid which has a rich, very sweet, honeyed and deep-rosy, very tenacious aroma. The spicy tonalities are usually less pronounced, while the honeylike notes are similar to those of the damascene it do not have that pungent cheap rose note but instead a beautiful sweet and slight green note that is a very pleasant elegant Rosey aroma. Extremely old and rare Rose bushes of sweet cabbage rose variety that has been cultivated and grown in the desert of the Negev. Amazing and rare. Beautiful Pure Essential oil. Bible References: Many varieties of the cabbage rose are indigenous to Syria, Egypt and Israel. Isaiah 35:1
Honey Abs Apis melliferra, Privately produced in Gadash Ora Israel
harvested from Honey /Bees wax- Honey is a staple in Ancient Israel. It sweetens everything from beverages, food to medicines.
Bible References: Genesis 43:11, Exodus 3:8, Exodus 3:17, Exodus 13:5, Exodus 16:31, Exodus 33:3, Leviticus 2:11, Leviticus 20:24, Numbers 13:27, Numbers 14:8, Numbers 16:13, Numbers 16:14, Deuteronomy 6:3,Deuteronomy 8:8, Deuteronomy 11:9, Deuteronomy 26:9, Deuteronomy 26:15, Deuteronomy 27:3, Deuteronomy 31:20, Deuteronomy 32:13. Honey in itself is medicine and is valued like treasure in Israel and the middle east in general.
Sandalwood Mysore Used in religious ceremonies, perfume such as Weddings, Baby Namings, and Jewish. Sandalwood is considered to be precious as the Cedars of Lebanon. Bible Holidays Biblical references: Numbers 24:6, Psalm 45:8, Proverbs 7:17, Song of Solomon 4:14. Used for almost any ailment there is to open mind, spiritual issues, to relieving sore muscles and pain.
Pomegranate seed oil. Cold Pressed seeds C02 from Israel. Pomegranate is a favored carrier oil and the C02 variety is deep slightly sweet, nutty and warm notes.
Biblical references: Song of songs 6:7 Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate. Exodus 39:26, Songs of Songs 8:2. Spiritual Significance: Temple service, mitzvot, or good deeds. Often refer to heart chamber with the blood vessel. Ironically Pomegranate is used to make the heart strong and open heart and improve circulation.
Mazel Tov!
