page_title: Lag BaOmer
section_title: Parades
hierarchical_section_title: Lag BaOmer / Customs and practices / Parades
caption_attribution_description: English: Lag BaOmer parade. Brooklyn, New York, USA, 1987 – in front of 770 Eastern Parkway - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson synagogue's – and central headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement עברית: תהלוכת ל"ג בעומר בניו-יורק תשמ"ז (1987) מול בית מדרשו של הרבי מליובאוויטש רבי מנחם מנדל שניאורסון - 770 - מרכז חב"ד העולמי.
context_page_description: Lag BaOmer, also Lag B'Omer, is a Jewish religious holiday celebrated on the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer, which occurs on the 18th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar.
  According to kabbalistic tradition, this day marks the hillula of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, "the Rashbi", a Mishnaic sage and leading disciple of Rabbi Akiva in the 2nd century, and the day on which he revealed the deepest secrets of kabbalah in the form of the Zohar, a landmark text of Jewish mysticism. This association has spawned several well-known customs and practices on Lag BaOmer, including the lighting of bonfires, pilgrimages to the tomb of Bar Yochai in the northern Israeli town of Meron, and various customs at the tomb itself. However, the association of Lag BaOmer with the death of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai may be based on a printer's error.
  Another tradition that makes Lag BaOmer a day of Jewish celebration identifies it as the day on which the plague that killed Rabbi Akiva's 24,000 disciples came to an end, and for this reason the mourning period of Sefirat HaOmer concludes on Lag BaOmer for some believers.
context_section_description: The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, encouraged Lag BaOmer parades to be held in Jewish communities around the world as a demonstration of Jewish unity and pride. Chabad sponsors parades as well as rallies, bonfires and barbecues for thousands of participants around the world each year.
caption: A Lag BaOmer parade in front of Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, in 1987
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