BS”D Lag B’Omer in 2020 will not be like any other year. This year will be something special. The light of Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai won’t be shining on countless maduras (bonfires) in Jewish communities throughout the world, nor on the hundreds of thousands who would normally flock to Meron to be with the Tzadik…
BS”D Lag B’Omer, which is the 33rd day of Sefiras HaOmer, and the 18th of Iyar, is a festive day celebrating two prominent, yet connected events: The moment Rebbe Akiva’s students stopped dying, and the passing of the Holy Tanna Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai. In the weeks between Pesach and Shavuos, all of Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 students died…
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