BOX
- BOX
- BOX, a shrub or tree (Buxus sempervirens) that
grows wild in Asia Minor. It is cultivated in Israel as an ornamental
tree. In the Mishnah it is called eshkero'a, its excellent
wood being used for delicate articles and apparatus, such as the urn
which was used in the Temple for the casting of lots to decide the
duties of the priests (Yoma 3:9). It has a creamy yellow color and R.
Ishmael said that the children of Israel "are like boxwood, neither
black nor white, but an intermediate color" (Neg. 2:1). Since he lived
in the south of Ereẓ Israel, R. Ishmael was probably referring to most
of the inhabitants of that region, but no conclusions can be drawn from
this statement as regards the color of the skin of the Jews living
elsewhere in the country. The box is not mentioned in the Bible although
the Targums identify it – without basis – with certain other biblical
trees, such as the te'ashur.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Loew, Flora, 1 (1926), 316f.; J. Feliks, Olam ha-Ẓome'aḥ
ha-Mikra'i (19682), 84, 317. ADD.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Feliks, Ha-Ẓome'aḥ, 34.
(Jehuda Feliks)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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