More than a year after 45 families lost loved ones on Mount Meron, there is still nobody able to stand up and say, “I’m sorry, I was partially to blame.” A couple of days after the horrific Mount ...
On one hand some rock cut burials dating back to the time of the Mishna are present in Meron. On the other, no archaeological evidence linking them to the Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was ever found. Every ...
Though the investigation into the deadly disaster at Mt. Meron on Thursday night was still in its earliest stages as the weekend ended, recriminations from current and former officials in top ...
In the late fifteenth century, R. Obadiah of Bartenura described Jews ascending to Meron on Lag BaOmer, gathering at the tomb of R. Shimon bar Yochai with bonfires, charity, and prayers for healing ...
The Lag B'Omer celebration in Meron will begin Thursday evening, approximately an hour after sunset, with the traditional lighting of the bonfire atop the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai by the Rebbe ...
A crush during a religious celebration at Israel’s Mount Meron killed at least 45 worshipers Friday. An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people had crowded onto the mountain to celebrate the Lag B’Omer ...
The wilderness of the Upper Galilee is thick with trees, vineyards, freshwater springs — and Jewish lore. It’s in this area, the Talmud relates, that 2nd-century Jewish sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai ...
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