(Times of Israel) Lenny Ben-David - Lag B'Omer, which started in Jewish communities on Monday night and continues through Tuesday, marks the end of a plague which took the lives of 24,000 students of the great Talmud scholar Rabbi Akiva (c. 130 CE). Until this year, Lag B'Omer was marked in Israel by mass pilgrimages to the graves of High Priest Shimon HaTzadik (Simon the Just) in Jerusalem or Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Meron in the Galilee, as bonfires were lit across the country.
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