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Every year on Lag BaOmer, some 200,000
people attend the 'Yom
Hillula' (day of rejoicing) at the tomb of
Rabbi Shimon bar
Yochai in Meron, Israel. The...
- A Yom
Hillula (Hebrew: יום הילולא, day of festivity) is
another word for
yahrzeit or "death anniversary". However, it
differs from a
regular yahrzeit...
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BaOmer in many communities.
According to
modern kabbalah, this day is the
Hillula of
Rabbi Shimon bar
Yochai or the
anniversary of his death.
According to...
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completed his
final teaching and died. His
yahrzeit is
widely known as a Yom
Hillula, a day of celebration. This is
based on the
original text of
Shaar HaKavanot...
- next. He
directed his
students to
celebrate his
death that day as a Yom
Hillula (wedding), as it
would messianically unite the
immanent and transcendent...
- tradition, a
pilgrimage is made to the tomb on Lag
baOmer to mark
either the
Hillula of
Rabbi Shimon bar
Yochai or the
anniversary of his death. The highlight...
- Hatsera's tomb. In the
anniversary of Hatsera's death,
pilgrims come on a
hillūla journey,
mostly from
Morocco and France. A
market pops up, and pilgrims...
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Jewish month of Kislev. The date is
celebrated by
Hasidic Jews as the Yom
Hillula (anniversary of death) of the
Maggid of Mezritch,
successor of the Baal...
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Disaster (22
November 2021). "Interim
recommendations in
preparatio for the
Hillula in 5782" (PDF). gov.il.
Archived (PDF) from the
original on 16 December...
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BaOmer We know from
travellers that by the 18th and 19th centuries, the yom
hillula at
Meron on Lag
BaOmer with
bonfires and the
cutting of children's hair...
