 Hello there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here bringing you this video today a couple of days after Purim in Jerusalem. Always one of the most exciting and joyous days of the calendar here in Jerusalem. Purim is celebrated one day after Purim in the rest of the Jewish world and in the rest of Israel. It has to do with the technicality about the fact that at the time of Joshua as in the biblical Joshua Jerusalem was a walled city, which is why Tel Aviv does Purim a day ahead of us here in Jerusalem and of course on Purim it's traditional. There's lots and lots of people out on the streets listening to them, Agila being red, dressing up in costumes and this year I had a very very last minute choice of costumes because I visited the ancient Nabataean city of Avdat a couple of days ago for those who are interested in ancient civilizations and history Check out my video about Avdat. It's about three or four video uploads ago on this channel. Really interesting place The Nabataeans are much much better known for their famous desert city of Petra But the incense route actually traveled from Petra Actually, I'm for talking about frankincense all the way from Oman through modern-day Saudi Arabia. The BBC have an amazing five-part documentary you can find on YouTube for free It's called the frankincense route. I highly recommend it But part of the incense route to travel through what is today Israel and Jordan went from Petra in Jordan Stopped in Avdat, which is one of the stations on the incense route and then wound up in Gaza Which was then a seaport now it could still be a seaport, but it's under a military siege due to the political situation there, which we will also save for another day Because I was just in Avdat and thinking about incense and spices and whatnot I decided to go on a bit of an incense learning journey over the past few days and got a few costume accessories, but also came across a really interesting brand of incense products, which I decided that I would show in today's video So firstly if you're looking for incense in the old city, it is everywhere in the Christian quarter This is a tub of frankincense that I picked up, but I don't know much about the quality There are dozens of stores catering to you know religious pilgrims And it's it's interesting. I wanted I want to just unpack this a little bit in this video But it's interesting to me that frankincense and all these resinous spices, which were such an integral part of Jewish religious worship in biblical times in the times of the temple these days They're so associated with Christianity, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that at all I just think it's a pity that they really fallen out of favor and practice among Jews So in my quest to rediscover the world of incense and resin incense I picked up a supply of frankincense resin from Zach's Jerusalem Gits. I'm not necessarily sure it's the best place to buy it, but they have a Facebook presence I also picked up this little Thurible which my friend who's in who is into incense described as a Disneyland thurible But for the sake of poor him it did the part So I got that and I also got a little supply of Charcoals and that's where you the secret formula is you light your charcoals You put them in a metal incense burner like this something I learned from people more advanced in the resin Incense resin world of me is you're supposed to wait till the coals are nice and Gray and then you add Conservatively your frankincense resin which I have a supply to last a while for now However on poor him itself I met her someone a very interesting a friend of her friend and she told me about this guy called Yigal Adiv and he has a company called Desert sense and desert sense incense now just important to say firstly This is not promotion for Yigal I just met him for the first time in fact and it just seemed very fortitious that was my journey into incense I met someone else into Incense and felt the same way to me that it's a pity that the use of incense in in the Jewish world has completely fallen By the wayside there is a reason for that people are there's a prohibition in Judaism against Recreating what's called shaman Mashicha, which is anointing oil. It says in the Jewish Bible that Moshe Used a very very specific type of oil and out of an abundance of caution The practice of anointing oil has kind of fallen out of favor in in Judaism and alongside really with incense But there is a such a long tradition of it in this part of the world and desert sense in desert sent incense this guy Yigal travels around the world in order to source Quality incense because I understand that in the world of incense there is something of a quality control problem There's a lot of you know, dubious Incense in the market stuff. It's really bad synthetic ingredients. You don't want to be inhaling I will say that as a asthmatic I'm generally incense is something I reserve for very occasional use I think there are studies saying that it's you know If you have some kind of a respiratory condition, it's probably best not to get in the habit of using incense But now and again, I believe all things of moderation can be healthy. So this guy Yigal I also bought from a store this lovely olive Olive tree wood incense holder, which is just a slab of olive tree, but he's got a little Bolt here that fits his incense sticks and Really really nice guy and he's happy to talk you through the products He he sells he comes to the market in Jerusalem, which is the market on Beth Salel Street Every couple of weeks. He's got a Facebook and an Instagram which I'll link to again Not out of any vested interest to promote him or promote his stuff But rather because I think it's interesting that there is a Jewish guy in Israel Who's really into sort of source and quality incense and sort of bringing bringing that tradition back If you will so he also you got very kindly labeled it for 60 shackles Which is about $15 he sells you a box of 10 and he has them all laid out I'll add a couple of photos into this video at his market stall So you can pick out different kinds of incense and something I actually I thought was quite clever as well was on the incense box There's a little hole for you to put the incense So even if you don't want to buy a little ornate incense holder like he sells You can just use the box or you can use of course your own incense stick holder in order to Hold your incense. So what I got here is I Being interested in incense because of its connection to everything biblical I was I was opted very heavily for Frankincense, which is really what I was interested in Frankincense in in Hebrew is called Lavonna in Arabic. It's called. I believe and people can correct me It's a laboon So Bechur, which is the burning of incense has a big tradition in Arabic and if you go to the old city Jerusalem You'll meet a lot of Christian Arab merchants But it's often the case that words in Hebrew and Arabic are almost the same So I've gone here for black frankincense light black frankincense two kinds of incense frankincense incense with pine and cardamom White purification, which I believe has some white sage in it brown purple And I can't read I got a couple from my wife as well because she is not a she is not a fan of the scent of the smell of frankincense so we picked them out together and I went for like four or five frankincense and frankincense based ones and then a few more that she would find more appealing So I'm gonna actually go ahead and start out my incense here and show you guys the box that they come in Which is very nice and I'm going to go for one of my plain frankincense ones, which were black And I don't know how long these are going to burn for but he said it should be a decent amount of Time and as you can see it fits perfectly into this Piece of olive wood. So there you go the original Incense holder is this part of the world where perhaps people putting these incense sticks into olive wood And that's it. This is a beauty about using incense this way as opposed to you know, your whole Thorible charcoal resin setup is it's much more kind of user friendly. So I'm just going to go here and Light The incense I'm going to give it a bit more of a start here Trying to keep the blue part of the flame on the incense and there we go. We have our incense in operation here and I'm burning my first incense stinking incense stick frankincense from Desert scent looks like I might need a bit more a bit more time But you can see the frankincense very very strong starting to waft over and going to put it a little bit of at a At a distance and it's you can see it started to burn a so if you're looking for to get into the world of resin incense and incense in In israel There is a guy you got a div his brand name is desert sense desert scent incense And he said that he told he was telling me that he lives in the north of israel But he goes to these kind of what I would call uh from uh from ireland farmers markets these kind of artisanal markets Throughout israel. So he's very friendly. You can hit him up on a whatsapp or sorry on instagram Facebook or sent him a whatsapp his phone number is there and i'm sure he'll be happy to tell you When he's going to be next around your part of the world 60 shackles for this 10 pack of incense and I was able to Select them and he also gave me like advice on what what types I should try very very friendly guy and my friend who Forticiously I met over poor him swears by this as good quality stuff She doesn't trust any incense and says that this this stuff is top quality And I think that for artisanal artisanally made carefully sourced incense I think that 60 shackles for 10 which works out of course to 60 shackles per stick. I think is very Reasonable hope that video was interesting a break from the usual programming about general stuff around israel if you want to get more videos For me more topics coming up About israel and jerusalem and then subscribe to the youtube channel. Thank you for joining me today on this video