[Avodah] Celebrations Lag baOmer Evening

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Sun May 10 16:37:31 PDT 2020


See SA OC 493:2, and the MB s"q 6-7.
https://www.sefaria.org/Shulchan_Arukh%2C_Orach_Chayim.493.2?&with=Mishnah%20Berurah

The Mechaber doesn't end the mourning until the END of Lag laOmar. (Although
you can cut your hair lekhavod Shabbos when Lag laOmer is Erev Shabbos.

The Rama, following the Maharil, says the mourning ends at Haneitz on
Lag BaOmer.

the MB says similarly.

I am not saying those who actually have a minhag to celebrate at a
bonfire Lag la/ba'Omer evening are wrong. It's all minhag after all.
I am just asking about the permissibility of the more recent spread
among yeshivos and other communities, for whom the custom of ending the
mourning is at haneitz (dawn), not the night before.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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