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Lag BaOmer 2017
ל״ג בעומר
Lag BaOmer 2017: from the evening of May 13, 2017 until May 14, 2017.
- Begins on the evening of
- Ends
- Length
- One day
- In the Hebrew calendar
- 18 Iyar
- 5777
About the holiday
The Omer, the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot, is kept as a stretch of semi-mourning: no weddings, no haircuts, no music. On its thirty-third day the mourning lifts for a day, by a tradition that a plague among Rabbi Akiva’s students stopped then. Bonfires are lit after dark, three-year-olds get their first haircut, and all the weddings that were waiting happen at once.
Other holidays in 2017
- Tu BiShvat
- Purim
- Passover (Pesach)
- Yom HaShoah
- Shavuot
- Tisha B’Av
- Rosh Hashanah
- Yom Kippur
- Sukkot
- Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
- Hanukkah
The exact candle-lighting time depends on sunset where you are. Check with your local community.