Sometimes, because of insurance reasons, children were not even allowed near the fires. The size and materials were heavily regulated.
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Even then, only professional licensed firemakers were allowed to make the fires. You needed many permits just to have a campfire, and a small one at that. I couldn’t imagine what would be done with them, because, having grown up in America, no one ever made their own bonfires. Some of these towered fifty feet into the air. Soon I began seeing them reappearing in gigantic pyres throughout my neighborhood. Then wood began disappearing from construction sites, then tree trunks, furniture, household appliances and the like. Weeks before Lag B’Omer, all loose wood began disappearing. Of course, I didn’t appreciate at the time how relatively healthy that experience was until I came to Eretz Yisroel. Needless to say, none of this was filled with deep religious significance.
There were special games between different grades and between the faculty and the students. We would go to a local park and play baseball and kickball and volleyball and machanyim.
When I was growing up in the New York area, Lag B’Omer was the official school sports day. To complicate matters, the way Lag B’Omer is celebrated is also somewhat of a mystery. Lag B’Omer as a happy occasion remains a mystery. But if that is the reason, why celebrate on Lag B’Omer? He didn’t get those students on that day, but rather at a later date. He suggests that perhaps it is a happy day because of the five students that Rebbe Akiva got after the other 24,000 died. The Pri Chadash gives a cryptic answer to this question. It is unlikely that the person would make the day he recovered into a day of celebration. The relative recovers for a day and then relapses and passes away. The Pri Chadash on his commentary on Shulchan Aruch, asks the following question: why is Lag B’Omer a happy day? If it is because Rebbe Akiva’s students stopped dying, it didn’t make a difference because they all died in the end anyway! Imagine someone has a relative with a fatal illness. Additionally, we know it is the yahrtzeit of Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai, the author of the Zohar. First, we know that the students of Rebbe Akiva who were being decimated by a plague stopped dying on this day.
What is Lag B’Omer? We are familiar with two aspects of the day. The truth is, it’s often hard for us adults to appreciate it as well. Somehow, this doesn’t always seem to come across to our children. Lag B’Omer is a day that we know is filled with deep spiritual significance. We need to recognize, as the Maharal explains, that we are supposed to be living a life that is like a spiral – going over the same ground every year, but always on a higher level. It should not be enough to light the menorah again, or just listen to the megilla again. Many people have allergies or food sensitivities, so labeling your dish with a list of ingredients is extra-considerate.īring a serving utensil and your own "mess kit" we would like to try to maintain a "carry in, carry out" policy.Before every holiday, we as parents need to examine what messages we wish to focus on for ourselves as adults and for our children. Please bring a dish to share that is dairy-free (or clearly labeled as containing dairy). Story-telling with Kabbalistic Insights to the Torahīring meat-friendly food and we'll potluck together.This is an event for all ages! Old and young, let's get together and let our lights shine! We'll learn more from the Kabbalistic “Book of Radiance”. Together we will celebrate by increasing our own illumination, lighting fires and playing with arrows. Lag B’Omer (the 33rd day after Passover) celebrates the life of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a luminary known for revealing light hidden within everyday things, highlighting the extraordinary in the ordinary. Join us for a nature-connected, family-friendly evening of good food, good community and good learning!
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