Lag BaOmer
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A strange undercurrent of sadness and mourning runs between the stretch of the two Freedom festivals, Pesach and Shavuot. From delaying weddings to refraining from haircuts, halacha literature details a somewhat macabre element that makes its way into the passage between these mo’adim, clipping the joy and placing a check on the anticipation. Oddly, these two diverging responses to the same period of time reach a crescendo on the thirty third day, on Lag baOmer, a day that joyfully celebrates--of all things-- the death day of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai! Could the emergence of these two elements simply be dismissed as mere historical coincidence?
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