B”H Friday, 19 Iyar, 5782 May 20, 2022 Issue N936
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How to Eat Carob (and Why We Eat it on Lag BaOmer) What Is Carob? You might have seen or heard of carob powder or carob chips (like chocolate chips, but not). It’s often used as an alternative to cocoa because it has a similar warm, nutty flavor, although carob is naturally sweet, unlike cocoa. Carobs are technically legumes and grow in dark pods filled with seeds. Depending
on where you live (they grow primarily in the mediterranean and other places with similar climates), you may or may not have seen these. Sometimes stores in large Jewish communities will get them in around Lag BaOmer and Tu Bishvat, two times of year it’s traditional to eat them.
the life and teachings of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who authored the Zohar, the foundational text of Jewish mysticism. Forced into hiding to escape the Roman oppressors of his time, Rabbi Shimon and his son Rabbi Elazar hid in a cave for 13 years, where they subsisted on carobs from a tree which miraculously sprouted Why Do We Eat Carob on at the entrance of their cave Lag BaOmer? (and water from a spring that popped up). On Lag BaOmer we celebrate Continues on a page 10
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