Lag B’Omer is one of
those little-known Jewish holidays, the kind that passes unnoticed among
most American Jews. Perhaps they would be more interested if they knew
it involved barbecue — and a couple of really good stories. Widely
celebrated in Israel, it’s known as a family-focused celebration filled
with grilled meats and carob cakes and bows and arrows.Read more: http://forward.com/food/371566/what-the-heck-is-lag-bomer-hint-it-involves-barbecue/
Lag B’Omer is one of
those little-known Jewish holidays, the kind that passes unnoticed among
most American Jews. Perhaps they would be more interested if they knew
it involved barbecue — and a couple of really good stories. Widely
celebrated in Israel, it’s known as a family-focused celebration filled
with grilled meats and carob cakes and bows and arrows.Read more: http://forward.com/food/371566/what-the-heck-is-lag-bomer-hint-it-involves-barbecue/
In
Meron, in northern Israel, about 500,000 chasidim make an annual pilgrimage to
the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai (Rashbi) to sing, dance, and light
bonfires. Rashbi's tomb is the epicenter of the Lag B'Omer celebrations
because he was one of the students of Rabbi Akiva who survived a
terrible plague that killed thousands of them, and he went on to write
the Zohar, the book of Kabbalah.
For the last few years on Lag B'omer we've been posting videos of the bonfires and dancing in Israel on Mount Meron. This year we're taking a break from the bonfire videos (you can see them here and here) and posting a new video from Ari Lesser, the American Orthodox Jewish rapper, singer, songwriter, and spoken word artist.
In the video, Lesser tells the whole Lag B'omer story in his unique rapping style, getting the message across in an unusual but effective way.
Lesser grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. After graduation from the University of Oregon, he worked as a musician in Los Angeles, where he became known in the "hippie jam band" scene. While working on his first album there, his financer, a Rastafarian selling Medical Marijuana, gave him a copy of Psalms. Lesser found that he related to King David as a songwriter and started rhyming the psalms.
This ultimately led him to a deeper interest in Torah and his Jewish roots, and he became a baal teshuva. He visited Israel on a Taglit-Birthright trip that he ended up extending to ten months, during which he studied at Yeshiva Temimei Darech in Safed and Mayanot in Jerusalem.
Happy Lag B'omer. Enjoy!
A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS: THE VIDEO MAY NOT BE VIEWABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE EMAIL THAT YOU GET EACH DAY ON SOME COMPUTERS AND TABLETS. YOU MUST CLICK ON THE TITLE AT THE TOP OF THE EMAIL TO REACH THE JEWISH HUMOR CENTRAL WEBSITE, FROM WHICH YOU CLICK ON THE PLAY BUTTON IN THE VIDEO IMAGE TO START THE VIDEO.
Lag B’Omer is one of
those little-known Jewish holidays, the kind that passes unnoticed among
most American Jews. Perhaps they would be more interested if they knew
it involved barbecue — and a couple of really good stories. Widely
celebrated in Israel, it’s known as a family-focused celebration filled
with grilled meats and carob cakes and bows and arrows.Read more: http://forward.com/food/371566/what-the-heck-is-lag-bomer-hint-it-involves-barbecue/
Lag B’Omer is one of
those little-known Jewish holidays, the kind that passes unnoticed among
most American Jews. Perhaps they would be more interested if they knew
it involved barbecue — and a couple of really good stories. Widely
celebrated in Israel, it’s known as a family-focused celebration filled
with grilled meats and carob cakes and bows and arrows.Read more: http://forward.com/food/371566/what-the-heck-is-lag-bomer-hint-it-involves-barbecue/
Lag B’Omer is one of
those little-known Jewish holidays, the kind that passes unnoticed among
most American Jews. Perhaps they would be more interested if they knew
it involved barbecue — and a couple of really good stories. Widely
celebrated in Israel, it’s known as a family-focused celebration filled
with grilled meats and carob cakes and bows and arrows.Read more: http://forward.com/food/371566/what-the-heck-is-lag-bomer-hint-it-involves-barbecue/
Lag B’Omer is one of
those little-known Jewish holidays, the kind that passes unnoticed among
most American Jews. Perhaps they would be more interested if they knew
it involved barbecue — and a couple of really good stories. Widely
celebrated in Israel, it’s known as a family-focused celebration filled
with grilled meats and carob cakes and bows and arrows.Read more: http://forward.com/food/371566/what-the-heck-is-lag-bomer-hint-it-involves-barbecue/
Lag B’Omer is one of
those little-known Jewish holidays, the kind that passes unnoticed among
most American Jews. Perhaps they would be more interested if they knew
it involved barbecue — and a couple of really good stories. Widely
celebrated in Israel, it’s known as a family-focused celebration filled
with grilled meats and carob cakes and bows and arrows.Read more: http://forward.com/food/371566/what-the-heck-is-lag-bomer-hint-it-involves-barbecue/
Lag B’Omer is one of
those little-known Jewish holidays, the kind that passes unnoticed among
most American Jews. Perhaps they would be more interested if they knew
it involved barbecue — and a couple of really good stories. Widely
celebrated in Israel, it’s known as a family-focused celebration filled
with grilled meats and carob cakes and bows and arrows.Read more: http://forward.com/food/371566/what-the-heck-is-lag-bomer-hint-it-involves-barbecue/
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