How do the Jewish People celebrate Lag BaOmer?

Families go on picnics and outings.

Children go out to the fields with their teachers with bows and (rubber-tipped) arrows, and bats and balls.

Bonfires are lighted throughout Israel. The ones who started this tradition were the followers of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who lighted fires at Mt. Miron, where this Rabbi is buried, in order to lighten the day of his death. This custom spread out to other places too. A second reason for lighting fires is that it is believed that when the mutiny began, the word was spread by lighting fires at the tops of the mountains throughout Judea.

UMBC HILLEL – WE ARE HAVING BBQ, GAMES, MUSIC AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AT THE ERICKSON FIELD!!!