שלום ברוך הבא Shalom & Welcome Description Dodi Li (My Beloved) Ketubah®™ Blend Also known as Dodi Li Sod ®™ & My Beloved Shemen ®™ This blend was first created back in 2002 when my husband I got married. The blend was sprinkled onto our ketubah canvas, sprinkled onto our Chuppah, & on my bouquet of roses & lilies, a drop was added to my husband’s Tallis, also to the rose on his lapel & I wore it as my wedding day perfume. The blend recipe was inspired when I was reading several passages of the Shir ha’Shirim (Song of Songs) so I decided to take all my favorite florals with the citron which is the Etrog because our wedding was 7 days before the High Holiday season of the year. All these oils’ properties are listed in the Holy texts of the Tanach (The Bible). I blended them carefully together to create this beautiful unique oil. The ingredients are essential oils of flowers & citrus that are grown & distilled in Israel. Since the first batch in 2002, we have improved the blend recipe to greater depths & notes of citrus & floral harmony. Love is not a strong enough word to describe this beautiful blend. It’s love & pure happiness in a bottle. Inspired from these verses: Song of Songs 2:16, & 6:3, My beloved is mine, & I am his. He feeds his flock among the lilies. Song of Songs 2:1, I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Song of Songs 6:7, Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate. Song of Songs 8:2, I would lead you & bring you to my mother’s house- she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates. The first batch I ever made was from oils I obtained in our Holy Land Israel & created this blend for my wedding day 2002 in the month Elul. ELUL is an acronym for Ani Ledodi Vedodi Li, I am for My beloved & My beloved is for me (Song of Songs 6:3). At other times, G-d, the divine Beloved, reaches out to us (see, for example, Song of Songs 2:16). During Elul, however, we must initiate the relationship of renewal. It all starts with the ani, the word I. We must see ourselves for who we are, for who we have & haven’t yet been, & for who we might become. Knowing we are because G-d is Almighty, all-seeing, & has compassion. ELUL is an acronym for Ish Lereyehu Umatanot La’evyonim, Each one to his neighbor, & gifts to the poor (Esther 9:22). This verse describes the celebration at the time of Queen Esther when the Jews were spared. Foodstuffs were sent to neighbors & friends, & gifts, to the poor. Those exchanges remain Purim practices to this day. Nehemiah 8:10 speaks of Jews sending gifts of food (the same phrase “shilchu manot” is used) to one another at the time of the New Year, as well. Some Hasidic groups maintain the custom of sending gifts of food during Elul. ELUL is an acronym for Inah Leyado Vesamti Lach. Deliver into his hand, I shall establish for you (Exodus 21:13). Elul “a refuge in time.” Elul provides a haven for all his people even those that have
