Awake O north wind, and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.... (Song of Songs 4:16) Balsam and bosem: the perfumes of Ein Gedi: The best and the most expensive spice/perfume of ancient times The lowly hyssop: mother of the za’tar spice: Humble in appearance, modest in its demands Nogah Hareuveni Entering the aromatic garden of love: Levonah and Lebanon: the beloved’s body as landscape Robert Alter Enhancing the food in Talmudic times: Spices and benedictions of appreciation Spice towers and salvation: A deeper look at the Havdalah ceremony Shubert Spero For the candle and the spices: A Yemenite (16th-cent.) poem by Sa’adiah for the Havdalah ceremony (plus a RealAudio recording!) SPICE CONTAINERS in JHOM's JUDAICA ART GALLERY From King Solomon to the Mendes family: A short summary of the Jewish spice trade The aromatic spices used by Sephardi Jews: Cooking with turmeric, cumin, cardamom, saffron, ginger, cloves Claudia Roden & Joan Nathan A Pinch of Snuff (1906): A short story by the greatest of Yiddish writers I.L. Peretz Judaica Art Gallery: Spice containers for the Havdalah ceremony From the Gross Family Collection The spice of Jewish life and culture: Hebrew rootword lesson: T-V-L Dr. Joseph Lowin