[Avodah] Are Upsherin and Bonfires Taken from the Gentiles?

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From: Yitzchok Levine _Larry.Levine at stevens.edu_ 
(mailto:Larry.Levine at stevens.edu) 



>>  In this post Rabbi Mandel begins by discussing the origin of the term  
bonfire. It comes from the terminology bone fire. Such fires using 
bones  were made by Christians and this is where the term bonfire comes  
from....

In a message to me today, Rabbi Mandel added:

"....What I  did not put in the article, because 
it was too long already, is that there  is historical evidence that in 
the years after the Ari, this celebration  became a bone of 
contention...." <<
 
 
>>>>>
Make no bones about it, it is unfortunate that the Lag  B'Omer bonfire 
should be a bone of contention between Jews.  [To be serious  for a moment:] Can 
we not agree that once a minhag has become so accepted and  its origins 
largely forgotten, that we can forget about how it started and not  object to 
it anymore?  That is the etzem davar.   (Sorry.....)
 
 


--Toby  Katz
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