Dancing in the Vineyards

This past winter, we took a trip to Israel and visited the Psagot winery. You can take a regular bus (standard, local fare) from Jerusalem to arrive in this Binyamina region for a reserved tour and wine-tasting.

This is not the main production center for Psagot, though there are grape vines around and barrels with wine you can view through a window.  The building primarily  serves more direct commercial purposes, than production, as the site for tours and weddings and a gift shop where you can purchase Psagot wines and related products like wine-scented soaps.  The day of our tour, the chuppah was set up in the yard ready for a wedding that evening. 

Gazebo with table, chairs, and barrel on the Psagot Winery grounds

I've seen photos of weddings there, and sometimes the dancing is actually outdoors, though there is also space inside for guests to dine and dance, as you can see  in the picture on the bottom.  Even on a day in January, the temperature there soared above 70 degrees, so I hope the white dresses kept the maidens cool for their Tu B'Av and Yom Kippur dances

Speaking of that, I waited to post this until the eve of Tu B'Av to connect to the thoughts I've had on this holiday over the years. 

The first one which gives the origins of the day with the 6 positive historical events is athttp://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/08/15th-of-av.html Then I quote some variants on what the nubile women would say in the vineyards at
http://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/08/there-are-more-lines-ascribed-to-girls.html
http://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/08/15th-of-av-take-3-allegory-significance.html
and http://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/08/15th-of-ave-take-4-differing-accounts.html
So there's the textual analysis.

More in http://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/08/thoughts-on-tu-bav.html
Yet further thought in http://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2015/07/this-years-thoughts-on-tu-bav.html

                                    

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