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Mori V'Rabi Harav Hagaon R. Shlomo Miller Shlita said

Mori V'Rabi Harav Hagaon R. Shlomo Miller Shlita said*,

One may not take a haircut in the morning before
Tefilas Shachris שו"ע או"ח פ"ט ומשנ"ב שם

However, those who shave regularly, may on Lag Baomer
(after נץ before שחרית) shave.

It might even be preferable to shave before Davening
so he will look presentable כעומד לפני המלך

קובץ תורני אור יהושע חזקיהו ח"ח*

Whose Minhag is it?

Whose Minhag is it?

R. Y. M. Tukaczhinsky zt"l (Sefer Eretz Yisroel 18-3) writes “ the
Sefardim & Chasidim celebrate Lag Baomer and light fires.”

Seems, non-Chasidic Ashkenazim have no such Minhag .(in E.Y.)

The מנחת אלעזר 4-60 (Chasidic Rebbe) writes, “ Lag Baomer
celebrations (music & dancing etc.) are only for Bnei Eretz Yisroel.
In Chutz La'aretz, these celebrations are strange and haughty.
כזרות יחשב וכיוהרא “

Seems, in Chutz La'aretz, even Chasidim have no Minhag of
celebrating Lag Baomer.

Not to deviate from your Minhagim & Mesorah means
you don't search for & follow new Minhagim, your
parents/ grandparents haven't heard of or done so.

THE LAG BAOMER DARKEI EMORI FIRE DANCE

The תוספתא (Shabbos 7:1) enumerates practices
that are אסור to do because they are considered דרכי אמורי.
One of them is clapping or dancing in front of a fire.

Dancing in front of a fire would be an איסור דאורייתא
of ובחקתיהם לא תלכו.

Some might claim that dancing in front of a fire on ל"ג בעומר
is an accepted מנהג בישראל, and they will argue that it can't
be wrong when you have thousands of Yidden & Rebbes
dancing around the fire.

The same argument was probably also used when there
were thousands of Yidden worshipping the עגל הזהב.

Perhaps those planning to dance in front of the fire
should consult their מורה הוראה if this איסור דאורייתא is no
longer applicable today, and why not?

Lag Baoemer

OTHER OPINIONS

1) According to ר' מנחם החברוני (13th century)
רשב"י is buried in Kfar Chananya (15 km. south of Meron)

2) According to the חיד"א, there is no מקור anywhere
that רשב"י was niftar on Lag Baomer

3) The first mention of רשב"י Yahrzeit on ל:ג בעומר is the
controversial ספר חמדת הימים

4) According to the יעב"ץ, (The Chasam Sofer seems
to agree) R. Moishe d'Leon (not רשב"י), wrote
the זהר

5) According to many Poskim, the תלמידי ר' עקיבא still died on
ל"ג בעומר but stopped on the 34th day of the עומר.

6)  The מדרש says it was only 300 Talmidim who died.
The גמרא (Yevamos 62) says 12,000 pairs of Talmidim died.

7) The גמרא says they all died of a disease called אסכרה.
According to Harav Hagaon Y. Henkin zt"l and others, the
גמרא uses אסכרה as a code for getting killed fighting
the Romans.

8) The שואל ומשיב 5 - 39  writes, "If you distribute the money
to עניי ארץ ישראל instead of spending it to go to his
קבר etc., he guarantees רשב"י will have much more
נחת רוח.

9) According to the Chasam Sofer,ל"ג בעומר celebration
has nothing to do with רשב"י

10) According to the Chasam Sofer, the only ל"ג בעומר
celebration is קצת שמחה of not saying תחנון

11) According to the מנחת אלעזר ח"ד:ס.the ל"ג בעומר
celebration is strictly a מנהג ארץ ישראל Celebrating
in חוץ לארץ is onsidered strange & arrogant. כזרות יחשב וכיוהרא

12) When the מנחת אלעזר was in Eretz Yisrael during ל"ג בעומר
he spent the night in צפת, not willing to celebrate in Meron
together with the Zionists.

13) The תוספתא (Shabbos 7:1) says clapping hands or
dancing in front of a fire is אסור because of דרכי אמורי.

14) In the ספרים of the previous generations, they only
mention of מרבים בנרות (festive) and not the מדורה

15)  Years ago, they had women dancing in Meron
on Lag Baomer לכבוד התנא רשב"י

16) Originally, the pilgrimage to Meron for the first
350 years was done on פסח שני and not on ל"ג בעומר

17) Originally, the celebration was held at the cave of
בית שמאי & בית הלל at a later date it was changed to רשב"י

18) Originally, it was only Muslim women who burned
their clothes לכבוד רשב"י.
The Yidden later adopted this controversial Minhag.

19) It's not the lighting of the fire that's done לכבוד רשב"י
It's the burning of the expensive clothes that is done
לכבוד רשב"י

20)  The Chasam Sofer in the פתיחה to סדר נזיקין writes,
the Yeshiva started learning מס' בבא קמא on Lag Baomer.
גל עיני ואביטה נפלאות מתורתך stands for the 3 בבות & their 30 פרקים

21) Rav Elyashiv Zt"l said that דעת תורה is not to travel
to Meron  ל"ג בעומר
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