Salt and Water

Salt, a preservative; elevates blood pressure; holds water, shipped from Israel in ancient times all over the known world…Salt.

Salt is used as a preservative in Israel. It replaces 3,000 chemicals in food and its products.  Even the cheeses are preserved with salt. Since we arrived here, I stop cooking with salt, there is enough of it in the meats and milk products and baking goods.

We used to take salt tablets for long walking weeks in the desert. I haven't heard much of it since we arrived.  I teased Willie today, "We are getting younger daily because we stopped a bunch of chemicals and we are now preserved with salt".  

Israel got plenty of salt. In the food, in the rain, in the sea; Water, on the other hand, we don't have enough. The Sea of Galilee is off again-on again with the water levels. The Dead Sea is open for now because of heavy rains, but always it is possible that production will be shut down from lack of water. We pray for rain and welcome it as a blessing. We pay dearly for any use of water; yet, we are taught to drink at least 2 liters a day winter and summer. Our water is drawn from such deep wells that the lime in that depth is mixed with the water and cause a major deposit of calcium into the water supply. We need to clean our kettles and pots and pans out of it with ….you guessed, Salt. Lemon Salt to be precise is the cleaning agent of the kettles.

Salt water once cleaned of salt is used for drinking.  Salt without water is used for preserving. Both are essential.  

Twelfth Day, 2014 - Thank You God for creating the salt to add to our food, to preserve, and to illustrate that we cannot lose our flavour or like salt we'll be useless.  Thank you God for separating water from water thus creating sky and lakes and seas and water supplies

Hydrated and full of flavour,

Orith