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What is Lag BaOmer?

By Mendel Kaplan

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Mendel Kaplan
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the founder and spiritual leader of Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, he also serves as a Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service

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Posted: May 3, 2010

What is the source of eating cooked eggs on Lag Baomer? Most people never heard of it.

Posted By Anonymous, Israel

Posted: Apr 16, 2010

I think, we, ALSO light bonfires on lag b' omer...

i think we ALSO light bonfires on lag b' omer because of the great LIGHT that Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai gave to the world by revealing the ZOHAR!! Could the Rabbi respond if this is correct?? Thank you!

Posted By Anonymous

Posted: May 13, 2009

Why do we light bonfires on Lag aOmer?

Rabbi Akiva traveled to the rabbis of the South to teach them. On Lag Ba'Omer, he started instructing these rabbis, his last five disciples. And from that day, the world began to brighten from these five points of light. To commemorate this event, in the Land of Israel we light bonfires to symbolize the great light that the Torah represents.

Posted By Shmueli, brooklyn, ny

Posted: May 7, 2007

Why do we light bonfires on Lag aOmer?

Posted By Anonymous

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