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Title: | Small fish, watermelon, cucumber, leek,onion, and garlic |
Authors: | Babich, Harvey |
Keywords: | food availability small fish watermelons leeks onions garlic |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | Stern College for Women, Torah Activities Council (TAC), Yeshiva University |
Citation: | Babich, H. (2012-2013). Small fish, watermelon, cucumber, leek,onion, and garlic. Derech HaTeva, 17, 49-53. |
Series/Report no.: | Derech HaTeva;vol. 17 ; 2012-2013 |
Abstract: | Food availability was a complaint of B’nei Yisrael when traveling through the desert. “We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free of charge; the cucumbers and the melons (Rashi: watermelons), the leeks, the onions, and the garlic” (Bamidbar 11:5). Interestingly, thousands of years later, Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura (i.e., the “Jewish Marco Polo”) arrived in Cairo and noted, “The only inexpensive foods I saw in Cairo were fish from the Nile, onions, leeks, cucumbers, melons, and vegetables” [1]. Apparently, the Egyptian agricultural economy remained stagnant from when B’nei Yisroel was enslaved in Egypt to Bartenura’s visit in 1490. |
Description: | Scientific article |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/8922 |
Appears in Collections: | Stern College for Women -- Faculty Publications |
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