What exactly is Gargir, anyway??! Any reasonable theories out there?
Randy
According to our research, "Gargir" refers to a plant called the "rocket plant" of the family Cruciferae ("cruca" means rocket in Latin), a European annual grown mainly for salad. It has a short foreangled seed capsule.
For more information, try running a search with one of the major online search engines. We have a picture of it in one of our books here (Olam ha'Tzome'ach ha'Mikra'i, Yehudah Felix p. 191). It doesn't look familiar to me, but I can scan it and send it over upon request.
-Mordecai
can you scan [the picture] and send me a copy, please?
Joel
Joel,
Here is the picture www.dafyomi.co.il/yoma/discuss/gargirpx.jpg. And www.dafyomi.co.il/ftp/gargir.jpg is the accompanying text. These are taken from Rav Yehudah Felix's Olam ha'Tzome'ach ha'Mikra'i, Masada Press, 1976, p.190-191. Hope you find it helpful.
Be well,
-Mordecai
Ribbi ou Mori
My knowledge about gargir : in egyptian arabic it has the same name ! (semitic languages). It is very common and inexpensive.
In french it is called roquette. The leaves are eaten as a salad. Rather expensive !
In Italy, I think that they call it rouccoula (?). They fill a large pita bread with white salted cheese and a lot of leaves of rouccoula.
I have eaten it and its taste is rather sharp.
Chabbat chalom,
Yossef
Thanks for clarifying that!
Also, I'd like to apologize for the overly large mailing with the picture of the Gargir that I recently distributed; it went out to the entire list by accident. You will not receive such large mailings in the future!
-Mordecai