Good morning and Happy Sabbath!
Its warmer here at our place than in Jerusalem. That appears will be the case up thought next Friday as well. A nice cool down with some rain equates to some actual stalk growth in size with the wild and domestic grain growing in Biblically acceptable soils as defined by Isaiah.
Some are curious about a "sharav event" which I mentioned yesterday. For sure they are newcomers to this endevour which is wonderful in itself. Eleventh hour workers in the field is wonderful to witness to.
Sharav is the name given to the meteorological condition of when the hot east winds blow into the Land towards the end of the Biblically defined "winter" there. They normally take place in the 12th and the 1st Biblical Months in a given year. They cause the grain to move through the growth stage they are currently in at that time, at a more rapid pace. At times the sharav can be sustained for 3-5 days. Other times less with not as much of an effect.
There have been none to date this Abib Growing Cycle. You can go back over the years in our reporting if you are so inclined to see the profound affect they have, especially on grain that is nearing or in Zadoks 8th stage. Of course this year there is nothing even remotely close to that at this time. With the entrance of this unseasonable cold spell moving in, there does not seem to be any chance of a sharav doing likewise for some time if the pattern holds.
Just for some fun I have taken a screen shot from a video posted yesterday about a trip to the south to see the red anemones. This individual wanted to add a short portion on the video of the drive there so they simply took it from a video taken from a past trip much later in the year. When you see it you will understand as it is picture #1.
Take a shot at the age of this grain. Really out of place with all the current photos from that are. We must be on guard for such things. Harmless intent by this individual but not so with others with a calendar agenda.
Then for the newer folks we have 2 photos of a young barley inspector testing the waters. It gives us some opportunity to evaluate the extremely sand soils near Ruhama that are not used for agricultural purposes obviously. If you look at the two underlined locations you will see wild oats in the head if you zoom in. Remember that the first wild oats are always 2-3 weeks ahead of the wild barley growing with them. Now, if you look right in front of the young inspector you will see anemones growing with the wild barley in that location as well. Note the age difference between the 2 grains.
Of course anything from this location is unacceptable for a Most Holy First of the Firstfruits Wavesheaf Offering. With that said I can inform you that this particular location has been used by others in the past to declare the start of the Biblical Year. Imagine that.
In the second picture of this young inspector you can see the wild oats just coming out of the boot with one stalk with a head on it right in front of the side of his/her head. Notice how anemic it is with only a couple of seed pouches. That is the result of a lack of rain and thus even more pronounced in sandy soils. It is fighting to bring about even a couple of seeds to propagate its self. If this location gets some rain the wild barley will do likewise.
Then one I couldn't pass up posting. An individual hiking in the snows two days ago. I too love to do such a thing.
Maybe later today we will have some fun with the looks from this time frame over the past years. We will see.
Our peace we give to you.
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