Omer
We start counting this from the second day of Pesach
The Omer
R' Akiva had this job for the first 40 years of his life
Shepherd
This is the meaning of the word Shavuos
Weeks (seven of them)
This was the name of R' Shimon bar Yochai's son
R' Elazar
This city in Israel is visited on Lag B'Omer
Meron
During the counting of the Omer we don't do these things (name at least 3)
1. Listening to music
2. Cutting your hair
3. Getting married
4. Buying new clothes
This was the name of R' Akiva's wife
Rochel
The Torah was given on this mountain
Har Sinai
This book was authored by R' Shimon bar Yochai
The holy book of the Zohar
This is why its called "Lag" B'Omer
It is the 33rd day of the Omer (30=Lamed, 3=Gimmel)
There are this many days in the counting of the Omer
49
When R' Akiva noticed water making a hole in a rock, he said this:
If water can soften a rock, surely the words of Torah can be absorbed in my heart.
This (important set of rules) is read on Shavuos
The ten commandments
When he was hiding in a cave R' Shimon and his son ate this
Carob (באקסער)
Jews customarily do this on Lag B'Omer
1. Light bonfires
2. Play in the fields
3. Archery
This event took place at the conclusion of the first Omer counting in history
Matan Torah (the Giving of the Torah)
On Lag B'Omer this is what happened to the students of R' Akiva
They stopped passing away
We eat this kind of food on Shavuos
Dairy
R' Shimon and his son were in the cave for this many years
13
This is why R' Shimon bar Yochai was hiding in a cave
He had made fun of the Roman government and they wanted to arrest him
Omer means this
1. A measure the size of a 10th of an Aifah (עשירית האיפה)
or
2. The offering that was brought on the second day of Pesach from a sheaf of barley
This is what R' Akiva taught as one of the most important teachings of the Torah
Love your fellow Jew as yourself
These 2 famous Jews passed away on Shavuos
Dovid Hamelech and the Baal-Shem-Tov
Lag B'Omer is celebrated because of this
Rabbi Shimon asked that we celebrate on the day he passed away to remember the secrets of the Torah that Hashem revealed to R' Shimon
This is the Hebrew date of Lag B'Omer
18 of Iyar