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The disaster in #Meron in Israel comes on what should be a festive night - #LagBaomer, the end of the period of semi-mourning I alluded to here
This was the #Meron coverage yesterday timesofisrael.com/police-ready-f…
In fact I'm at a wedding tonight which was scheduled to begin later than usual - after the Jewish calendar day begins and it is #LagBOmer here, so that festivities are permitted
#LagBOmer starts in Jewish communities on Monday night: the 33rd day b/w Passover & Shavuot.
Traditionally, the 33 days are period of grief for 24,000 students of Talmud scholar Rabbi Akiva (c 130 CE) who died in a plague.
Will today's plague also end? Celebrations are out.
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Traditionally, the 33 days are period of grief for 24,000 students of Talmud scholar Rabbi Akiva (c 130 CE) who died in a plague.
Will today's plague also end? Celebrations are out.
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In modern days, Lag B'Omer is commemorated by mass pilgrimages to the graves of scholars such as High Priest Simon the Just in Jerusalem or Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Meron (the Galilee).
Bonfires are lit across the country, & weddings are held.
Pics: Jer'm school outing 1918. 2/
Bonfires are lit across the country, & weddings are held.
Pics: Jer'm school outing 1918. 2/
3/ Lag B'Omer pics in the tomb of Shimon Hatzaddik (the Just) in Jerusalem, circa 1930 and today.
