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.
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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