Description
Yellow Jerusalem Rose
Comes in 1oz Miron Violet Glass Jar
Rosa judaica
Also known as Rosa foetida persiana, Judaica Rose, Judean Rose, and Rosa Palestina
Jerusalem Israel
RARE
This marvelous fragrant Yellow Jerusalem Rose powder extract can be use in creams, lotions, Salved, Spinkled on bake goos, used as incense.The very cold-tolerant shrubby plant gives an unbelievable display of eye-popping yellow color. The double flower form is quite a rare rose.Today these beauties grow all over Israel but we only harvest these within Jerusalem from privately own gardens.
The Rabbis tell us that there was a law that noa garden in Jerusalem was allowed during Temple days. The only one flower allowed and it was the rose and the two reasons are growing roses in Jerusalem was permitted, despite the overall ban on horticultural activity in the capital city of Jerusalem.
The first was tradition. The Talmud says (Babylonian Talmud, Bava Kama, 82b), there had been rose gardens in Jerusalem “from the days of the first prophets.”
The second reason rose gardens were permitted in Jerusalem was that, according to Rashi, the Medieval commentator, roses were used as an additive to the Temple incense mixture, which was burned twice a day. At the end of the Talmud’s list of incense ingredients (Keritot, 6a), an extra element called kipat hayarden is mentioned.
Rashi says this term means “banks of the Jordan” and is a reference to roses that grew along the edges of the Jordan River. Even Today the Roses we see on the banks of the jordon are pink and yellow roses. Thus, per Rashi, the gardens permitted in Jerusalem were for the cultivation of Jordan River Roses and its function was to enhance the fragrance of Temple incense Ketoret.
