Milk and Honey (musical) Milk and Honey (musical) Milk and Honey is a musical with a book by Don Appell and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The story centers on a busload of lonely American widows hoping to catch husbands while touring Israel and is set against the backdrop of the country's struggle for recognition as an independent nation. It was Herman's first Broadway book musical following a succession of off-Broadway revues. Herman was playing the piano for "Parade", his most recent revue following "I Feel Wonderful" and "Nitecap", when he was approached by theatre producer Gerard Oestreicher, who was seeking a composer
Figs in the Bible Figs in the Bible Figs in the Bible refers to references to figs and fig trees in the Tanakh and the New Testament, which are sometimes symbolic. The fig tree is the third tree to be mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible. The first is the Tree of life and the second is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve used the leaves of the fig tree to sew garments for themselves after the Fall, when they realized that they were naked (). In Deuteronomy, the Promised Land is described as "a land of