Why Is Lag BaOmer Celebrated? Lag BaOmer is celebrated for two different reasons. One is the end of a deadly plague that is believed to have killed a whopping 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva Ben Yosef.

The annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel – which in 2022 falls on Wednesday night, May 18 – until recently has attracted as many as half a million visitors every year. The annual ...

Chabad centers throughout South Florida celebrated the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer with car parades that featured decorated vehicles. Several of the parades honored healthcare professionals who have ...

Lag BaOmer is approaching, and many Israelis commemorate this holiday by having a big bonfire in their backyard. Unfortunately, the benign intentions of those fires may have malignant consequences ...

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On Lag BaOmer we commemorate the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai – a Talmudic sage from the second century. As such, every year on Lag BaOmer, tens of thousands of people travel to his burial place ...

Lag BaOmer – the 33rd day of the Omer – is celebrated for two primary reasons. First, the great second-century sage and mystic R. Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar and the first to disseminate ...

Efforts to identify victims and connect loved ones with missing relatives will continue into the weekend after a deadly stampede at a religious celebration in northern Israel killed at least 45 people ...

The Jewish holiday Lag BaOmer started on Monday night, and Bronx residents gathered at the Bronx Jewish Center for celebration. Rabbi Pewzner says that Lag BaOmer is about religious freedom and giving ...

The holiday of Lag BaOmer is one of the happiest days on the calendar for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community — a time of mass celebrations in honor of a revered sage. But in a split second Friday, the ...

(The Conversation) — A scholar of Jewish history explains why the annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel has such power and meaning. (The Conversation) — The annual Lag BaOmer ...