Although in Hebrew we find the word "Moriah". This comes a few days after Jesus named this painting, "Ma'estro" that is an Italian word that can mean "master or teacher". It's an honorific title of respect.
Today there was also news from Italy that they've closed the Italian ports to the NGO boats.
Ma'estro
10th June 2018
In this link Robert Harris an Associate Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages provides his view on Moriah. Moriah is first mentioned in Genesis 22:2. Solomon and David are also connected with Mount Moriah and Robert says that the place name is identified with Jerusalem.
He goes onto explain that Rashi's understanding of the name "Moriah", means "land of teaching" linking it to Micah 4:2.
Due to the word "mor" = myrrh, Rashi gave an option of "land of myrrh".
"There is a land where God is seen.
They worshipped him with fire.
They also taught the Torah there.
And they called the land Moriah".
http://www.jtsa.edu/examining-the-word-moriah
Wikipedia say the meaning of "Moriah" is "ordained/considered by the LORD".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriah
This video was uploaded in 2009, "Soul of Mount Moriah".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWzoc4y7Ssw
If we refer back to Rashi and the myrrh that was in the incense. In the Song of Songs 5, Solomon was in the garden when he spoke of the myrrh. In the book of Genesis the myrrh is one of the gifts to man. Genesis 43:11. It's mentioned in the book of Exodus, 30:23, Queen Ester received beauty treatments that included myrrh to prepare her for her King. The Psalms and the Proverbs mention it.
Solomon refers to a woman as a "sachet of myrrh", and he is described as dripping in it, in the Song of Songs, it also mentions the "mountain of myrrh". Hence they are talking about a fragrance, the smell and the power of it.
Why would fragrance be so important to the ancient Hebrews, the healing oils for massage, what we call today, aromatherapy oils. Aromatherapy oils can be traced back to ancient Egypt and the healing temples, as can reflexology. Even now if you go to Egypt you will see the shops selling different fragrances, in traditional shaped Egyptian containers.
Then if we go to ancient Greek culture we find the word, "Myrrha", and in Greek mythology, it says that she loved her dad and so she was turned into a myrrh tree due to her intimacy with him. Being a myrrh tree can be symbolic of a state of being in the same way that a mountain can be symbolic of a state of being, it is metaphorical.
Now as we know in the NT, Mary, the mother of Jesus was presented with Myrrh by the Magi. In ancient times it was also used for embalming as well as for medicinal purposes. Nicodemus gave the fragrance to Jesus and Mary Magdalene also worked with oils and massage.
Now straight after I received the "Moriah" message, this song was uploaded for my recommendation.
As far as I am aware the singer, Anne Margarethe Lund passed over with "cancer", and the resin from the Myrrha tree is used to make an oil. Apparently, scientific medical research with myrrha being "anti-cancer" is on-going and so far results have been positive enough for the research to continue.
https://draxe.com/myrrh-oil/
The Myrrha tree grows in the dessert, and the oil is very expensive.
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