Lag Baomer 101!
About Lag Baomer By Rabbi Hopkovitz Rabbi Simcha Hopkovitz serves as rav of the Young Israel of Hewlett. A Yadin-Yadin musmakh of RIETS, he is also maggid shiur at Yeshiva Toras Halakha in Kew Gardens Hill, Queens. The thirty third day of the counting of the Omer days between Pesach and Shavuos is, by Jewish tradition, a holiday on our yearly calendar. The origin of this day of commemoration lies in the Talmud’s reference to it as the...