Lag BaOmer
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Jewish holiday
Key facts
- Official name
- לַ״ג בָּעוֹמֶר
- Type
- Jewish
- Significance
- 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer , which begins the 2nd day of Pesach
- Begins
- 18th day of Iyar
- Date
- 18 Iyar
- 2025 date
- Sunset, 15 May –, nightfall, 16 May
- 2026 date
- Sunset, 4 May –, nightfall, 5 May
- 2027 date
- Sunset, 24 May –, nightfall, 25 May
- 2028 date
- Sunset, 13 May –, nightfall, 14 May
- Related to
- Pesach , Shavuot , Counting of the Omer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jewish holiday
- Duration
- 1
- Image
- Lag Ba'Omer bonfire Tel Aviv Israel.jpg
- Significant event
- 2021 Meron crowd crush
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- Commons category
- Lag Ba'omer
- topic's main category
- Category:Lag BaOmer
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
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Encyclopedic overview
Lag BaOmer (Hebrew: לַ״ג בָּעוֹמֶר, LaG Bāʿōmer lit. '"33rd [day] in the Omer"'), 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.
According to the Rishonim, the plague that killed 24,000 of Rabbi Akiva's students ended on Lag Baomer. For some communities, the mourning period of the Counting of the Omer thus concludes on Lag BaOmer.
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