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

[Zev Sero]

On 12/5/20 3:45 am, Danny Schoemann via Avodah wrote:
> And how can we end off without the Tosefta in Shabbas (Ch. 7:1 -
> https://www.sefaria.org.il/Tosefta_Shabbat.7.1  ) that mentions that
> one who dances to a flame is committing AZ. The Minchath Yitzchak
> comments on the page "as the Goyim do on known days; they make a
> bonfire and dance around it".

The key word there is "*to* a flame".  "*Le*shalhevet".  Not "around" or 
"near", etc. Of course people dancing around a campfire or bonfire, 
whether on Simchas Torah (as was the old Minhag Ashkenaz) or Lag Ba'omer 
or any other time, are not dancing *to* it or regarding it as a person 
of any kind.

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