What Is Lag BaOmer? Is It a Religious Holiday? Lag BaOmer is a Jewish holiday that usually falls in the spring. According to Chabad, Lag BaOmer celebrates the life of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who was ...

Yishai delves into two issues of intrigue: the Kabbalah and women. The holiday of Lag BaOmer is all about the victory of authentic Jewish culture and the Kabbalah — the mystical doctrines of the Torah ...

Editor’s note: Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews were killed in a stampede on April 29, 2021, while celebrating Lag B’Omer in the city of Meron in northern Israel. As details of the horrific incident are ...

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 ...

Lag BaOmer is one of the more difficult holidays to define. When you scratch beneath the surface of burnt potatoes and marshmallows, you discover that the familiar story we grew up with is just the ...

A strange Jewish holiday when communities light bonfires and children play with bows and arrows carries a message our culture desperately needs: how to debate war, politics and identity without losing ...

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 ...

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(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 ...