Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, whose passing Jews commemorate on the day of Lag Baomer, might be considered a great ecologist. Yet widespread bonfire practice has turned this day into the one with the ...

The Jewish holiday Lag BaOmer falls in May 2025, and it's one of the most festive days in the Hebrew calendar. If you see a lot of Jewish celebrants at bonfires and street fairs—or hosting big ...

However, this explanation does not shed much light on Lag BaOmer’s famous bonfires. To understand this practice, we need to look at an alternative explanation found in Rabbinic literature for ...

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 ...

A special Lag BaOmer bonfire is planned in Sa-Nur, one of the four communities the Sharon government has slated for uprooting, this Thursday night. A convoy of private cars will set off from ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children prepare a giant bonfire before lighting it in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on May 25, 2016 during the celebration of Lag BaOmer . The Lag BaOmer bonfire ...

He then mentioned that the entire idea of medurot (bonfires) on Lag BaOmer is based on pagan customs. I think that the medurot idea could have come from the method of notifying the Jewish ...

FLAMING MORONS – Golders Green synagogue holds Lag BaOmer bonfire celebration INDOORS due to rain. Flames three-feet high, lit by Rabbi Moshe Halpern, brother of Rabbi Chaim Halpern, soar inside ...

Lag BaOmer is often celebrated with bonfires, street festivals and parades. Many celebrants spend time outdoors taking in the beauty of nature. Marking the end of a mourning period, many Jewish ...

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.