Lag Ba’omer is apparently Hebrew for bonfires and barbecued meats on the beach. (Actually, Lag Ba’omer is a Jewish holiday celebrating the 33rd night of Passover which commemorates the number of days between barley and wheat harvests in ancient Israel). Regardless of its true meaning, it finally answered the age-old question: "How many MBA’s does it take to get a BBQ going?" The answer, as we found out, is all 12 of us.
Indeed, this holiday is celebrated in modern Israel by lighting giant bonfires on the beach, grilling up some delicious meats and cracking open a Goldstar.
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| Israeli bonfire on Lag Ba'omer |
We celebrated our first Israeli holiday together on Saturday night by doing as the Israelis do. We sent a few teammates to the Arab market to purchase the provisions, assigned another third of the group to prep, and let the remaining teammates man the grill. Once we got the grill going...
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| Ken lighting the grill |
...we all chipped in when it came to eating the delicious grilled kebabs, lamb sausages, onions, mushrooms, corn and marshmallows...
For a while, we felt like we could have been anywhere in the world enjoying just another beach barbecue. Amos compared the evening to his undergraduate days in Central California, and I didn't feel too far off from those summer evenings along the Atlantic Coast. And then we looked inland and saw the R&D centers for Google, Intel and Microsoft overlooking us the whole time. Only in Israel.
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| Marc working the grill |
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