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Lag ba-Omer

18th day of the Jewish month of Iyyar, or the 33rd day of the 50 days that separate Passover and Shavuot

The name of this Jewish holiday means "thirty-three omer," an omer being a sheaf of barley or wheat. In the biblical book of Leviticus, the people were commanded by Jehovah to make an offering of a sheaf of barley on each of the 50 days between Passover and Shavuot. After the evening service, the number of the day was solemnly announced, and in time this ceremony came to be known as "the counting of the omer."
Why the 33rd day of this period was singled out may have something to do with an ancient pagan festival of the forest that was celebrated at this same time. Another story claims that the plague that had been decimating the students of Rabbi Akiba in the second century suddenly and miraculously stopped on this day. In any case, the mid-harvest festival of Lag ba-Omer represents a break in the otherwise solemn season between Passover and Shavuot.

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BkFest-1937, p. 207
DaysCustFaith-1957, p. 137
DictWrldRel-1989, p. 567
FolkWrldHol-1999, p. 323
OxYear-1999, p. 728
RelHolCal-2004, p. 52

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Based on my fieldwork as well as having become familiar with the so-called "Meron" repertoire through recorded and print sources,(13) it does not seem appropriate to refer to the totality of the music performed at the Lag ba-Omer pilgrimage as "Meron," because what is performed there does not represent a unified genre.

Rumenishe Shtiklekh: klezmer music among the Hasidim in contemporary ... by Rubin, Joel / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought

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