{"id":27208,"date":"2021-05-10T10:11:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27208"},"modified":"2021-06-07T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T11:00:34","slug":"lag-baomer-the-holiday-of-hope-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/news\/lag-baomer-the-holiday-of-hope-2\/","title":{"rendered":"La\u201dg Ba\u2019Omer \u2013 The Holiday of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"839\" height=\"917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/Lag-Baomer-4.21.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/05\/Lag-Baomer-4.21.jpg 839w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/05\/Lag-Baomer-4.21-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/05\/Lag-Baomer-4.21-768x839.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><figcaption>Ono Marks the Lag Baomer Holiday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>La\u201dg Ba\u2019Omer marks the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> day of the counting of the days of the Omer (La\u201dg is the Hebrew alpha-numeric equivalent of the number 23). Marking this day as a holiday is a custom that developed in the 13th century.\u00a0 According to the tradition, the day marks the ending of a plague that killed tens of thousands of students of Rabbi Akiva&#8217;s disciples at the beginning of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Century CE. The reason given for the plague is that the students did not treat each other with respect. According to another opinion, the students died during a revolt against the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n<p>The 23<sup>rd<\/sup> day of the Omer counting \u00a0also marks the day Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, founder of the Jewish mysticism died.<\/p>\n<p>According to all opinions, Lag B&#8217;Omer was established as a day of hope.\u00a0 Despite the plague &#8211; life emerges triumphant; Despite the failure of the revolt &#8211; hope remained; And despite the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai &#8211; his teachings were preserved.<\/p>\n<p>Happy La\u201dg Ba\u2019Omer<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Moshe Rice<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Religious Zionism Administration<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La\u201dg Ba\u2019Omer marks the 23rd day of the counting of the days of the Omer (La\u201dg is the Hebrew alpha-numeric equivalent of the number 23). Marking this day as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27209,"menu_order":32,"template":"","class_list":["post-27208","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}