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for those injured. It was both a special and enjoyable Beth Am Celebrates Yom As the sun was setting, scores of community members
evening. With barbeque-style food, smores, and drinks, sat around the bonfire at Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens
attendees enjoyed a complete Lag Ba’omer experience. A HaAtzmaut on the Beach enjoying delectable desserts in the shul’s pavilion. Chazan
common tradition in Israel and all around the world is to Leibel Krinsky and his sons led the kumzits, informal
play with bows and arrows on Lag Ba’omer. The Jewish After a one-year hiatus due to COVID-19, Temple singalong, with popular Jewish songs and Lag B’Omer tunes
Community Synagogue gave everyone an opportunity to Beth Am returned to its annual tradition of holding a Yom while Rabbi Dovid Vigler shared stories and meditations
try to hit bullseye with a large dart board! HaAtzmaut service on the beach. Congregants and members about the holiness of the day.
of the community gathered last month at Ocean Cay Park to One of the stories was of the second Chabad Rebbe, the
celebrate Israeli Independence Day, enjoy the beach with Rebbe Dovber, who would go out into the fields on Lag
friends and family, and attend the musical service led by B’Omer and say l’chaim with his disciples. Many miracles
Rabbi Alon Levkovitz, Rabbi Brett Tancer, and Cantorial took place as a result of this event, particularly with regards
Soloist Marcy Morris. to children and fertility. People would wait all year for this
special time to draw the blessings of Lag B’Omer upon
themselves and their loved ones.

Photo courtesy of Jackie Alberts
Deane Dubansky, Elissa Macher, Ashley Stoneman, Cookie
Stories, Songs and Smores Gottlieb
on Lag B’Omer

Lag B’Omer is perhaps the most mystical of all Jewish
holidays. It commemorates the passing of the saintly talmudic
sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai around 1,800 years ago. While
hiding from the Romans in a cave in the Galilee for 13 years,
he and his son wrote the Zohar, the foundational text of
Kaballah based on the oral tradition from Moses. We mark the
festival by lighting bonfires, symbolic of the blazing passion
that the teachings of Kaballah infused into our spirituality.

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