{"id":12583,"date":"2019-06-02T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ono.ac.il\/are-you-for-or-against-lag-baomer\/"},"modified":"2019-06-02T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T05:22:00","slug":"are-you-for-or-against-lag-baomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/are-you-for-or-against-lag-baomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you for or against Lag Ba\u2019omer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rabbi Haggai Londin, head of the Lev-Berliner Social Issues Beit Midrash at Ono Academic College and Rabbi Ilai Ifran of Kvutzat Yavne present opposing opinions about Lag Ba&rsquo;Omer celebrations on website Kipa.co.il. &nbsp;In the &ldquo;Internet Beit Midrash (Study Hall),&rdquo; Rabbi Loudin contends that the observance on Mount Miron is evidence than many people with innocent faith feel a spiritual connection to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who is buried there. On the opposing side, Rabbi Ofran believes that the phenomenon undercuts basic principles of Judaism.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"english_bullet\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kipa.co.il\/jew\/51581.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For the full Hebrew debate &ldquo;For and against Lag Ba&rsquo;Omer&rdquo; on Kipa, click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Haggai Londin, head of the Lev-Berliner Social Issues Beit Midrash at Ono Academic College and Rabbi Ilai Ifran of Kvutzat Yavne present opposing opinions about Lag Ba&rsquo;Omer celebrations on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}