[Avodah] What is the reason behind the minhag to light bonfires on Lag B?omer?

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Mon May 11 14:43:10 PDT 2020


On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 02:01:11PM +0000, Prof. L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> From today's OU Kosher Halacha Yomis
> A. Lag B’omer is the yahrtzeit of Rebbi Shimon bar Yochai...

Maybe. It's "yom *simchas* RSBY", and "shemeis" is apparently a
transcription error during the history of copying the Peri Eitz Chaim.

(That's according to R Yaaqov Hillel, Seifer Shaar haTefillah, who worked
off RCVital's handwritten manuscript.)

The notion that he happily joined his Maker is only one possible peshat.
The argument in favor: Rashbi told his talmidim that he looked forward
to the day of his death like it would be the day of his wedding, and
they should celebrate it rather than mourn it.

The Chida writes in Birkhei Yoseif that tlag LaOmer is the Rashbi's
yahrzeit. But in Ma'aret Ayin (29 years later) he lists this as one
of the mistakes he made when writing BY.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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