Shabat Shopping

Rabbi Yakov Kirschenbaum Caught Shopping At key food For Shabat. (May 26, 2007)

Lag Baomer BBQ @ Ft. Tryon Park

Lag Ba'Omer is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, author of the Zohar- the fundamental book on Jewish mysticism. On the day of his passing, Rabbi Shimon instructed that the date be marked annually with festive celebration, like that of a wedding.

"Worthy is Rabbi Shimon to be relied upon in a pressing situation."(The Babylonian Talmud- Tractate Brachos, Pg. 9a)



Photography by Meir Pliskin (ymp@walla.com)