Balsaminka

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Medieval show of balsam (right) Balsaminka from the exhibition at the Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw Balsaminka - liturgical Jewish vessel used to store fragrant herbs, especially cloves, ginger, nutmeg, English herb with myrtle or rose petals.

It is used during hawdala - the prayer ending the Sabbath. Balsams were built in various shapes, but the most common were the turret balsams, shaped like the fortress - Warowna Tower, which is a biblical symbol of God. Less often, since the nineteenth century, fish-shaped balsams were made (head fish was consumed on the Sabbath evening). For the earliest information on spice vessels, a memoirs of David Reuben from 1530, which shows that the catholic monstrance turret (late Gothic, which appeared before the baron monstrance introduced in the Baroque period) was the model for the balsam. Among the turrets are found among others. modeled on towers of particular churches (Czech Republic) or castles.

The oldest known Polish balm was made in Gdansk in the early seventeenth century in the form of pomegranate fruit with a long leaf stalk (currently in Tel-Aviv in the collection of Józef Stieglitz).

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