LAG BAOMER

Lag Baomer, the celebration commemorating the victory of the Jews against the Roman Empire in the second century, is today in Israel celebrates with lighting of bonfires.
The tradition is to ignite cookers equal to those used by Jews of that time to warn them that had begun between the rebellion against the Romans, who prevented them from practicing their customs and studying the Torah ..
The rebellion was led by Lag Baomer Rabi Akiba, one of the most important sages of Judaism, who was hiding along with their students in the forests of the Palestinian land occupied to read the Bible.
The main symbols of the festival are the bow and arrow, elements that students used to hide the reason for their journey through the woods.
Each jag opens a world of options and themes to celebrate, discuss and pass, leading to multiple interpretations and meanings. In Lag Baomer presents us the challenge to discover those meanings that gives us the day 33 (Lag) Sfirat Haomer-the Omer count that marks the transition between Passover and Shavuot.
Going back then the verse of Hatikva: Liot Am Jofshi Beartzenu, we propose to think in multiple ways that this jag brings to each word that includes "be a free people in our land."
The thinking on these lines is enriched by the different stories that cross the jag. The various characters display a particular form to defend his membership of the Jewish people under adverse conditions, each contributing their fight from a more pragmatic side and the other from a spiritual place.
And these narratives emerging values and symbols: the centrality of a life devoted to studying the Torah as a community process that includes strengthening the relationship with the neighbor, and the image of fire, which appears as the symbol in Israel and Medinat diaspora has gathered and lit the Jewish people for thousands of years, representing both the continuous study of the Torah as the struggles for freedom under the Roman yoke.
We propose to undertake a journey that will lead us to explore the capacity that has had to reinvent Judaism, to build new perspectives about themselves, and illuminated again and again by fire that brought Lag Baomer.

Fuentel Merkaz Iehuda Amijai

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