Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate Lag BaOmer festival with music, bonfires | Video

Mount Meron, May 19 (EFE/EPA).- With songs, dances and bonfires ultra-Orthodox Jews on Thursday marked the celebration of Lag BaOmer on Mount Meron in Galilee, a small hill that becomes the center of the country for a few hours on this Jewish festival.

A festive crowd expectantly waited for a rabbi to light a bonfire made of cotton at the site of the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, considered a great sage and mystic who revealed the secrets of "Kabbalah" (Jewish mysticism) on the day of his death in the 2nd century.

Only men were able to enter the enclosure where the fire is lit, which they welcomed with songs and dances in an overcrowded space, while women followed the ceremony, many of them praying, from the doors of the enclosure. (Camera: ATEF SAFADI).

SHOT LIST: ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWS VISIT THE GRAVESITE OF RABBI SHIMON BAR YOCHAI AT MOUNT MERON, AS THEY CELEBRATE THE JEWISH HOLIDAY OF LAG BA'OMER IN ISRAEL.

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Date: 19/05/2022 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EPA
Topic: Religion and belief » Religious festival or holiday
Religion and belief » Judaism
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 298 seconds
Reference: 7001168660
Relevance: Normal