489:1 where BaOmer is inserted by a glossator). Lag LaOmer is also the name used by Yosef Karo, who was a Sepharadi, in his Shulchan Aruch ( Orach Chaim 493:2, and cf. Lag BaOmer is the traditional method of counting by some Ashkenazi and Hasidic Jews Lag LaOmer is the count used by Sephardi Jews. Some Jews call this holiday Lag LaOmer, which means '33rd of the Omer', as opposed to Lag BaOmer, '33rd in the Omer'. A vowel sound is conventionally added for pronunciation purposes.) (The Hebrew letter Чњ ( lamed) or 'L' has the numerical value of 30 and Ч’ ( gimmel) or 'G' has the numerical value of 3. Lag BaOmer is Hebrew for '33rd in the Omer'. ДЄdditionally, in modern-day Israel the holiday also serves to commemorate the Bar Kokhba Revolt against the Romans. ДЄnother tradition that makes Lag BaOmer a day of Jewish celebration identifies it as the day on which the plague that killed Rabbi Akiva's 24,000 disciples came to an end, and for this reason the mourning period of Sefirat HaOmer concludes on Lag BaOmer for some believers. However, the association of Lag BaOmer with the death of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai may be based on a printer's error. This association has spawned several well-known customs and practices on Lag BaOmer, including the lighting of bonfires, pilgrimages to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in the northern Israeli town of Meron, and various customs at the tomb itself. Lag BaOmer ( Hebrew: ЧњЦ·ЧґЧ’ Ч‘ЦёЦјЧўЧ•Ц№ЧћЦ¶ЧЁвЂЋ, LaG BДЃКїЕЌmer), also Lag B'Omer or Lag LaOmer, is a Jewish religious holiday celebrated on the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer, which occurs on the 18th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar.ДЄccording to kabbalistic tradition, this day marks the hillula (celebration, interpreted by some as anniversary of the death) of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, 'the Rashbi', a Mishnaic sage and leading disciple of Rabbi Akiva in the 2nd century, and the day on which he revealed the deepest secrets of kabbalah in the form of the Zohar (Book of Splendor, literally 'radiance'), a landmark text of Jewish mysticism.

A Lag BaOmer bonfire celebration in Israel, symbol of the holidayДЈ3rd day of the Counting of the Omer, which begins the 2nd day of Pesach

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