"Yiddish-Kite" & Klezmer in the Park! Lag B'omer Celebration 2011

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Kindly RSVP here online or call us at 805-382-4770.

Please Note: The City of Oxnard have reserved for us the covered area "Pavilion 1" for our event. After entering the park from Harbor Blvd, make a left into the parking lot and look out for the covered area.

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On Sunday you may call Rabbi Dov on his cell if you have any questions at 805-844-9989.

Lag Baomer

Lag BaOmer — this year, May 22, 2011 — is a festive day on the Jewish calendar, celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the great sage and mystic Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar. It also commemorates another event. In the weeks between Passover and Shavuot, a plague raged amongst the disciples of the great sage Rabbi Akiva. On Lag BaOmer the dying ceased. Click here to read more...

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		What is Lag BaOmer? The Chassidic masters explain that the final day of a person's earthly life marks the point that "all his deeds, teachings and work" achieve their culminating perfection... 5 Comments


		Lag BaOmer Traditions and Customs By Naftali Silberberg Bonfires, Jewish Unity parades, bows and arrows, carobs, and more. Find out what is traditionally done on Lag Baomer, and why... 6 Comments


		Lag BaOmer Event Search Find Lag BaOmer Events Near You Parades, picnics, bonfires, outings... Find out which fun programs YOUR local Chabad center is offering this Lag BaOmer!

Lag BaOmer Parades with the Rebbe

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		A Carob Tree and a Spring Talmud, Shabbat 33b Seeing a man ploughing and sowing, they exclaimed: "They forsake eternal life and engage in temporal life!" Whatever they cast their eyes upon was immediately incinerated 7 Comments


		24,000 Plus One Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Akiva taught that "Love your fellow as yourself" is a "cardinal principle in Torah." How was it that that Rabbi Akiva's disciples, of all people, were deficient in this area? 10 Comments


		Bow and Arrow By Yanki Tauber There comes a point at which the external resources we've come to rely on are suddenly ineffectual, and the only place to turn is inward, to ourselves 6 Comments


		The Practical Implications of Infinity By Jonathan Sacks Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the essence of Jewish mysticism 6 Comments


		Driven to Distraction By Elisha Greenbaum If only I could be locked away in a cell with no distractions and no excuses, can you imagine how much I would accomplish?


		What Is Kabbalah? By Tzvi Freeman To explain our world without examining its inner depth is as shallow as explaining the workings of a computer by describing the images viewed on its monitor... 20 Comments


		Attaining Immortality By Naftali Silberberg Is death a reason to mourn, or to celebrate the life of the deceased? That depends on the nature of the person's life... 3 Comments


		Love Distorted By Esther Scharf The night their father left town, his sons reminisced about their shared childhood, and the messages stressed in their home... 1 Comment


		13 Years in a Cave, Now What? By Levi Avtzon They wallowed in sand, subsisting only on carobs and water. They exit after thirteen years. What is the first thing on Rabbi Shimon's agenda?


		Earthly Rewards for Heavenly Service? By Naftali Silberberg Can you find a competent electrician willing to do a job for, say, three candies an hour? How about a spiritual person willing to serve G‑d for material reward?


		Make Me an Offer By Elisha Greenbaum Is your job a method of providing youself with the necessities of life, or has it become its own purpose? 3 Comments


		Living in the Future Lag b'Omer By Yanki Tauber It's my favorite oxymoron: If one indeed lives in the future, it's not the future anymore, is it? And if one only thinks he's living in the future, than he's not really living there, is he? 1 Comment


		An Inward Focus By Michoel Gourarie In order to conquer and affect the world around us we must first move inwards...


		Lag BaOmer Parades By Elisha Greenbaum What were they thinking when they invented Lag BaOmer parades?


		What is Lag Ba'Omer? By Mendel Kaplan What do we really celebrate on Lag Ba’omer and what does the Rebbe say about it. The story of Lag Ba’Omer — in depth. 3 Listen (20:37)


		A History of Lag BaOmer By Moshe New Why were the disciples of Rabbi Akiva punished by death for being disrespectful? And why are we happy on the day that R. Shimon Bar Yochai died? Listen (36:28)

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