[Avodah] Dancing Around A Bonfire & Concern of Foreign Practices: Rav Wosner’s Responsum

[Prof. Levine]

At 12:04 PM 5/2/2018, Micha Berger wrote:
>To my mind, what's more problematic is ending omer mourning before Lag
>baOmer morning. The SA has you wait for haircuts until 34 laOmer (493:2)
>and the Rama cites the Maharil and minhag on the 33rd "umarbim bo qetzas
>simchah, but explicitly writes, "ve'ein lehistapeir ad La"G be'atzmo
>velo miba'erev". With exceptions for cutting before Shabbos rather than
>waiting for Sunday and for berisim, lekhavos haMilah. In se'if 3, the
>Rama excludes the night of Lag baOmer for people who mourn on the last
>days too.
>
>And you need part of the 33rd day too, so that with miqtzas hayom kekulo
>you have 33 days. The SA haRav (the only Chassidic code of halakhah I
>have access to) agrees in 493:5 -- "aval laylah, afilu kulah, einah
>kekhol hayom".
>
>At some point a minhag originated to end the aveilus at tzeis.

Don't the Sefardim hold all of the 33rd day and stop the Minhag of 
Aveilus on the 34th day?  If so,  how can Sefardim go to Meron on the 
night of the 33rd?

I would like to know when the minhag originated to end the aveilus at 
Tzeis and who started it.

YL
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