#lag b’omer

[writtenfoxscreams]

So, I know that quite a few people know the Jewish joke: “they tried to killed us, we survived, let’s eat”, and a friend found this chart years ago explaining all the Jewish holidays and fast days through that joke, with one very important addition: TREES.

And since today was Tu B’Shvat, I found myself thinking that this would be a great day to share it.

Enjoy :)) and hag sameach!! <333

[eretzyisrael]

jewishmemesonly

not me tho!!!!! going strong!!!!!

[lem0nademouth]

i love lag b’omer because gun to my head i could not tell you what it’s for. we roast marshmallows around a campfire and sing songs and that’s about all i’ve got. i can give you a detailed, in depth explanation for every jewish holiday with the notable exception of lag b’omer.

[jessicalprice]

why are all the Jews suddenly posting about cheesecake, you ask? because it’s Shavuot!

sorry, let me give you a quick guide to Jewish holidays

Rosh Hashanah: dip apples in honey, contemplate feeling guilty

Yom Kippur: feel guilty, don’t eat

Sukkot: build a treehouse, shake a lemon at God

Simchat Torah: dance with a Torah scroll

Hanukkah: resist tyranny, eat fried food, set things on fire

Tu B’shvat: hug trees, eat every type of fruit and nut you can acquire, do complicated wine math

Purim: put on a drunken play about a teenage beauty queen, cast shade at tyrants

Passover: don’t eat pastry

Maimuna: eat a ton of pastry

Lag B’omer: set things on fire, shoot arrows, learn about rabbis with laser eyes

Shavuot: eat cheese and stay up all night reading with your female friends

Tisha B’av: mourn, preferably AT people

Hope that clears up any confusion

[girlactionfigure]

Lag B’Omer in Tzfat. "The God Who grants me vengeance and destroys peoples instead of me." Tehillim 18:48

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All Vows Chapter 40: All Vows

Phantom of the Opera: E/C, R/C, C/M, Post-Leroux/ALW Canon; Redemption Arc, 140K Words, 40 Chapters, 18+

All Vows is officially a COMPLETE FIC!

For so much of his life, Erik had borne witness to the joys and sorrows of others, hardly feeling anything himself but loneliness and despair. He had once been the architect of misery, the angel of death, those fleeting moments of power the only taste of joy he thought was allotted to him. The monster in him was dead, and it was not because he would get to live as an ordinary man. It was precisely that Christine had helped him see what others had tried to tell him before but he had been unwilling to listen: that sometimes people are not meant to live ordinary lives

Read All Vows Chapter 40 and the Epilogue Here

POTOMER Day 33/ Lag B’Omer Special-PHANFIC-All Vows Finale

From April 23 -June 11, I am posting 49 days of POTO content to mark the Omer, except on Shabbat. Masterlist of prior posts.

[greenflower21]

Rip Hunter you would have loved Wrapunzel

Rip Echo you would have loved Yehuda unsalted Matzos

Rip Tech you would have loved Daf Yomi

Rip Omega you would have loved the Hebrew school Purim Spiel

Rip Wrecker you would have loved throwing candy and lifting people on chairs

Rip Crosshair you would have loved Lag B’omer

Rip Rex you would have loved Jewish Geography

Rip Phee you would have loved searching for the affikomen on Pesach

Rip Batcher you would have loved eating the affikomen on Pesach

Rip Cody you would have loved the Rebbe

Rip Fives you would have loved the book of Daniel

Rip Wolffe you would have loved Lazar Wolffe

Rip Kix you would have loved “Mi Sheberach” by Debbie Friedman

Rip Soup clone you would have loved matzo balls

Rip Howzer you would have loved Nefesh Mountain

RIP Jesse you would have loved AEpi

Rip Boba you would have loved Adon Olam to the tune of Yankee Doodle

Rip Ventress you would have loved the tale of Yael and Sisera

Rip Fennec you would have loved starting arguments on Jumblr

Rip Obi Wan you would have loved Eicha

Rip Qui Gon you would have loved Mordechai Kaplan

Rip Yoda you would have loved Kollel

Rip Mace Windu you would have loved the ADL

Rip Plo Koon you would have loved the reform rabbis on TikTok

Rip Bo Katan you would have loved Yentl

Rip Satine you would have loved Art Scroll

Rip Korkie you would have loved the Prince of Egypt

Rip Din you would have loved the tunnels under 770

Rip Grogu you would have loved tot Shabbat

Rip Quinlan you would have loved Jswipe

Rip Padme you would have loved Hey Alma

Rip Thrawn you would have loved the conspiracies about the menorah being in the Vatican’s basement

Rip Zeb you would have loved wrapping tefillin in front of Kallus

Rip Kanan you would have loved drunken Zemirot

Rip Hera you would have loved JCC moms

Rip Dooku you would have loved the Essenes

… anyway, me and @labelma came up with these and I think we’re hilarious geniuses

[reachingrachnius]

Hi happy Lag B’omer 🏹❤️✡️🔥🎵🕺

[todaysjewishholiday]

4 Sivan 5784 (9-10 June 2024)

The fourth of Sivan is the second of the Shloshet Yamei Hagbalah, in commemoration of the three preparatory days for the appearance of HaShem atop Mount Sinai on the very first Shavuot. These are called the “Three Days of Limitation” because in Shemot 19:12 HaShem directs “Set boundaries for the people”— these temporary boundaries readied the newly formed community for the additional boundaries that the Torah would establish. While weddings, haircuts, and live music are traditionally prohibited during the Omer (with the exception of Lag B’Omer) they are all permitted during the shloshet yamei hagbalah to celebrate our progenitors readiness to accept the Torah upon themselves.

The third of Sivan is also the sixth day of the final week of the counting of the Omer. Yesterday was the forty-seventh day of the Omer. After tonight's count, only one more day of counting remains before Shavuot.

[jinxpologist]

haircut tomorrow cause it’s lag b’omer!!!

[cyb0rg-bby]

Orthodox Jews burn Israeli flag during Lag B’Omer, May 13 2017

[mariacallous]

Tunisia has largely moved on from the May 9 killing of five people at the El Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba by a National Guardsman. The event’s prominence on the country’s news sites has diminished and its claim on Tunisian conversation has largely been ceded to the other items competing for space at the national table.

On-air criticism of police recruitment methods by radio hosts Haythem El Mekki and Elyes Gharbi swiftly resulted in a legal complaint from the security services and, essentially, an end to discussion.

Thus far, Tunisia has steadfastly refused to publicly address the anti-Semitic nature of the attack, preferring instead to characterize it as “criminal.” However, the fact that the Jewish tourists and locals gathering to celebrate the festival of Lag B’Omer were specifically targeted by the attacker, 30-year-old National Guardsman Wissam Khazri, is hard to dispute.

After killing his colleague, Khazri donned body armor and rode 12 miles by quad bike to attack the pilgrims at the synagogue. However, beyond the arrest of four conspirators, his motivation for doing so, or details of any radicalization, remains unknown.

Responding to the murders, Germany and France characterized the attack as anti-Semitic, with Paris going even further and launching a terrorism probe into the killing of one of its citizens—a dual-national who was among the victims.

For Tunisian President Kais Saied’s government, the story was simply too messy. This year’s tourism revenues, which are vital following the uncertainty surrounding the hard-pressed country’s latest bailout from the International Monetary Fund, represent one of the few economic bright spots on a dark financial horizon. That security around the synagogue appeared to have failed—the attack was undertaken by one of the island’s supposed defenders—despite the massive expense and planning involved was also pushed to the sidelines.

However, underpinning all of this was the identity of the targeted victims and the deliberate and premeditated assault upon the Jewish community.

The Jewish presence in Tunisia reaches back almost 2,000 years. Over the centuries, through occupation by Phoenicians and Romans, conquest by Arabs, and colonization by Ottomans and the French, Tunisia’s Jews have maintained an unbroken thread linking past and present Tunisia. However, since World War II and the establishment of Israel in 1948, their numbers have dwindled. Pressure at home and opportunities overseas have reduced the population from around 100,000 in 1948 to less than 1,800 today.

Of all the Jewish communities that once dotted northern Tunisia, only that on the island of Djerba remains. The synagogue there, whose foundations are said to date back to Jerusalem’s Temple of Solomon, remains a cornerstone of not simply Tunisian Jewish identity, but Jewish identity as a whole.

The reasons for this declining population are rooted in recent history. Tunisia’s steadfast support of the Palestinian cause, a matter of profound faith for many, has embedded itself across all levels of society. From 1982 to 1985, Tunisia hosted the headquarters of the Palestinian Liberation Organization in a suburb just south of the capital, Tunis, until an Israeli air campaign essentially wiped it from the map, inspiring one of the first isolated assaults on the synagogue on Djerba by way of reprisal.

Many Tunisians are acutely aware of every injustice visited upon the Palestinian population. That, along with years of unflinching official opposition to the Israeli state, has almost certainly combined to make life in the country uncomfortable for many Tunisian Jews. By way of evidence, we only need to look to the spikes in emigration to both France and Israel that followed the Six-Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

Whatever some may say, it is clear that what happens in the Middle East carries consequences for Tunisia’s Jews and how they’re regarded by their compatriots.

In the wake of the synagogue attack last month, one Twitter user achieved temporary notoriety after discovering that one of the victims, Aviel Hadad, was to be buried in Israel. Hadad had held dual citizenship with Israel and—in much the same way as many Muslims ask to be buried in Mecca, without opining on Saudi politics—had asked to be interred there. Nevertheless, one Tunisian blogger called for Hadad’s Tunisian family to be expelled from the country and any officials who knew of his wishes to be prosecuted.

A prominent journalist, on discovering that a victim of the attack held an Israeli passport, asked if the country was mourning Zionists. Across the country’s ubiquitous radio channels, a major source of news and information for many, conversations on Tunisia’s attitudes to Jews came to be almost exclusively couched in discussions on the Palestinian and Israeli conflict, with the fate and welfare of Tunisian citizens judged by the actions of a distant state that few had any connections with.

Unsurprisingly, the president has proven no exception. On a visit to the Tunis suburb of Ariana the weekend after the attack, Saied rejected accusations of anti-Semitism, recalling his own family’s history of offering shelter to Tunisia’s Jews during the 1942-43 Nazi occupation of the country, when Tunisia’s Jews faced extreme persecution. From there, he demonstrated little difficulty in segueing effortlessly into a discussion on Israeli attacks on Palestine. Their relevance to Tunisia’s Jews was not made clear.

“Despite the fact that most of the Jews of Tunisia have never set foot in Israel and that their homeland has been Tunisia for centuries, they are taken as scapegoats for actions committed in another part of the world,” said Joachim Lellouche, the son of Jacob Lellouche, a prominent member of the Tunisia’s Jewish community. The younger Lellouche, who grew up spending time in both France and Tunisia, told FP, “Most of the Jews in the world feel close to Israel—because of their ancestral history; that does not mean that they support the internal policy of the government.”

Lellouche, who spent his childhood shuttling between France and his father’s busy restaurant in La Goulette, a port town near Tunis, recalled the kind of prejudice his family encountered. “It’s ridiculous, but there’s this thing about Jews smelling of the dead,” he said. “Around 15, maybe 20 years ago, my father told us about a [Tunisian] man who came up and sniffed him. The thing is, that was a poor and uneducated man. Now, since the revolution, mass media and fake news, those attitudes are everywhere.”

Lellouche has seen the consequences of Tunisia’s anti-Semitism. In 2015, his father’s kosher restaurant, Mama Lily, a mainstay of cultural life in the city, closed due to anti-Semitic threats.

“Tunisia’s Jews are always held to a higher account,” Amine Snoussi, a Tunisian political analyst, said. “People always expect them to prove their loyalty to Tunisia and to reject Israel before they’ll even engage with them. No one else has to deal with that.”

“Jews, or minorities even, don’t really fit with [Saied’s] agenda,” Snoussi continued. “He doesn’t have time for them. He deals in a very utopian vision. Anything that contradicts that—such as anti-Semitism or the recent attacks on the country’s undocumented black migrants—has to be rejected and denied.”

In Snoussi’s opinion, Saied’s entire reaction to the synagogue attack has been shaped, not so much by any sense of anti-Semitism, but by his almost exclusively populist mindset. “He’s sought to frame this in terms of Palestine,” Snoussi said. “That fits with his ideas of what the country thinks, as well as the wider Arab nationalist world. He doesn’t think about Tunisia’s Jews. He doesn’t think about minorities. He doesn’t care how linking them so clearly to Israel puts them at risk.”

That attitude is causing real damage. In early May, the University of Manouba in Tunis announced it would revoke the title of professor emeritus from Habib Kazdaghli, a Muslim-born historian of Tunisia’s Jewish traditions who had attended a French conference alongside Israelis.

Hardline attitudes to Israel appear hardwired into entire strata of Tunisian society. “It’s not just me,” Kazdaghli told Foreign Policy via a translator. “It goes further. Tunisia’s wrestlers and tennis players have all been accused of normalizing relations with Israel through sporting events.

“I’ve been studying this for 25 years,” he said. “This bothers them. Every time they do this”—referring to the implicit barriers placed in the way of his research by both government and academia—“they’re saying they’re anti-Semitic without actually saying they’re anti-Semitic.”

Beyond his own academic specialism, Kazdaghli has grounds to speak with authority on the topic. He was on the bus outside El Ghriba synagogue when the May attack took place.

“Now when something happens, the state doesn’t address it,” he said. “I don’t think it’s anti-Semitism on their part. It’s more about being scared of even addressing the issue, and that’s worse.”

[sethshead]

"Dear Dr. Cohen,

"I understand you received a #complaint from Fergus McGrath’s parents about last weekend’s Bonfire Jambor33 at our #school. You don’t strictly need to worry about responding, this family writes to complain about literally every #cultural #event we have at our school.

"Maybe they feel bitter because no one has ever heard of their #holidays, or maybe they just want to ruin everyone’s fun by making everyone cater to the most boring common denominator, no cultural events allowed, no fun, only studies.

"But I digress. As you may be able to tell, I’ve dealt with this family before when they complained about other school events. I’m pretty sure they’ve complained about every #community#event our school ever runs.

"Yes, including the fall holiday booth decorating competition, including the popular winter candle festival, our tree planting community service day, the late winter gift basket fundraiser, the spring afikoman hunt— pretty much every school event, I can’t even really think about one that they didn’t complain about. So *naturally* they are complaining about our community bonfire, because *of course* they are and this is why we can’t have nice things.

"But here are some talking points you can use in your response letter. If you even feel like responding to them, that is. I know it’s exhausting. Maybe if we ignore them hard enough they’ll get the message and send their kid to a Christian Day School where they don’t need to complain about #secular#holidays not being secular enough anymore?

"- The annual Bonfire Jambor33 is a popular spring bonfire event that is enjoyed by community members of all religious traditions.

"- The event was not held during school hours, it was a strictly optional weekend event.

"- Archery and bonfires are traditional activities of this time of year, when the weather is nicer and people want to enjoy a nice barbecue and communal outdoor activities. None of these are somehow religious activities. How is it that a spring archery and bonfire party is somehow religious whereas a fall archery and bonfire party isn’t? That doesn’t even make sense. These are totally secular activities. As I understand it even Christian summer camps do archery and bonfires, so there’s no Christian prohibition against these activities (or maybe only in spring? These people can’t even get their story straight).

"- Offering a 'haircut for charity' stall at the event, again, does not make the event somehow religious, it’s just a traditional time of year to get a haircut, haircuts are totally secular, and are you really going to be so aggressively against collecting money for our local food pantry?

"- The use of the number 33 in the name of the event doesn’t reflect Lag Ba’omer, it just refers to our school’s present building, which was built in 5733 of course.

"- Serving only kosher food at the event is not somehow a slight against the school’s Christish community. It’s just that we need to serve the food that most people can eat. Christish people may feel free to bring their own food and eat it at the picnic table with the yellow tablecloth. This is standard policy at our school events, we can’t cater to every single group.

"Again, I’m so sorry you’ve had to deal with this. I hope these suggestions are helpful, and please feel free to contact me with a draft response before you get back to the McGraths.

"Shimon Barzilai

"Administrative Assistant

"Ralbag Village Primary School

"#MedinatAmerica = #Satire"

h/t Jew Who Has It All

Seriously, what’s religious about Lag b’Omer?

[notaccurateornice]

Angel Hernandez retiring? It’s a belated lag b���omer miracle!

[girlactionfigure]

🟢 Mon morning - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

❌ IRANIAN PRESIDENT DEAD.. along with Foreign Minister and 7 others - it appears his presidential helicopter flew directly into the mountainside.  

Search efforts took all night, only confirmed a few minutes ago, and the wreckage was found by a Turkish observation drone.

This president was known as a “the hangman” and the “butcher of Teheran”, a mass murderer of political opponents of the regime in his early ‘career’, and was the president responsible for the mass drone and missile attack on Israel.

❌ IRAN CHIEF OF POLICE (likely) ASSASSINATED.. (unconfirmed report, possibly fake) the chief was shot multiple times and killed.  He is held responsible for the murder of hundreds of innocent civilians in protests.

▪️RUSSIAN NATIONALIST CHANNELS.. are sure that this is the work of the Mossad. (( The placement of the mountain in front of the helicopter was particularly masterful. ))

▪️SAUDI KING HOSPITALIZED.. with pneumonia, 88 years old.  

▪️PROTEST - Sha’ar HaGai .. "Brothers in Arms" slow down and block traffic on Highway 1, demonstrating against the conscription exemption law.  13 arrested including 4 of the leaders of the movement.

▪️AID PROTESTORS.. were stopping trucks on the  oad in the French Giva neighborhood in Jerusalem, interrogating drivers looking for humanitarian aid trucks coming from Jordan to Gaza. Police were called to the scene.

▪️REFUGEE RIOT.. late night a fight broke out between Eritrea’s including tools, knives and clubs in the Tel Aviv Hatikva neighborhood. Several of these riots between opponents and supporters of the Eritrean regime have occurred.  3 injured, 1 policeman lightly injured.

▪️POLICE RAID TEL AVIV MUNICIPALITY.. LAHAV 443 (Israel’s major crimes unit) investigators raided the Tel Aviv municipality this morning: 13 were arrested on suspicion of public corruption, money laundering and offsetting fictitious invoices amounting to hundreds of millions of shekels, and the involvement of the mafia.  Among those arrested is the head of a department in the municipality and his deputy.

▪️LAG b’OMER FIRE CONCERNS.. The Israel Fire and Rescue Commissioner has announced that in light of the fire conditions expected on Lag B'Omer there is a ban on lighting bonfires outside specified (controlled) areas.

▪️POPULAR FRONT & POP. RESISTANCE COMMITTEE THREATENS THE US FLOATING PIER.. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine warns against using the floating port to deport Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and protect Israel.  The Resistance Committee warns the pier s "a propaganda measure that helps legitimize the Israeli siege and occupation of the Rafah crossing, and divert attention from the siege, the mass extermination and the war of starvation."

"any Israeli or foreign presence at the floating sea port or at the border crossings, including American forces, would be a legitimate target."

⭕ ROCKETS at Metulla, by Hezbollah, 2 rounds.

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PoTOmer 2024/5784 Masterpost

From April 23 -June 11, I am posting 49 days of POTO content to mark the Omer, except on Shabbat.

Follow POTOMER for the posts.

(Gif of @lilykerhoas is from @or-what-you-will and @hyperfixatra January 2024 (2) video)

Day 49: PHANART-Phantom Returns to Broadway (as a Lego)

Day 48: PHANFIC-No Vows, POTO Queer Week 2024

Day 47: PHANART-Journey to the Lair made with Legos

Day 46: (No Post, Shabbat)

Day 45: PHANFIC-Mes Amicales Pensees (Young R/C)

Day 44: GIFSET-West End '23-'24 Phantoms having a mental breakdown during AIAOY.

Day 43: PHANFIC-Phantom of the Capitol Crack AU Idea

Day 42: GIFSET- Jon Robyns & Lily Kerhoas, West End 2024

Day 41: PHANFIC-Sangfroid, a Raoul Navy POTO Dark Week Fic

Day 40: AUDIO-Connor Ewing Phantom Debut Full Audio Gift

DAY 39 (no post, Shabbat)

Day 38: GIFSET-Jon Robyns unique acting choice

Day 37: PHANART: POTO Lego Figurines (Again)

Day 36: GIFSET-NEW BOOT (Jon/Lily/Mikey)

Day 35: GIFSET-MOTN Goodness (Jon/Lily)

Day 34: GIFSET-The Boatride

Day 33: (Lag B’Omer Special): PHANFIC All Vows FINALE

Day 32: (No post, Shabbat)

Day 31: PHANFIC- All Vows Finale Teaser

Day 30: LIVE SHOW-POTO Vienna Goes Wrong

Day 29: COSPLAY-Meg Giry

Day 28: PHANART-POTO Lego Figurines!

Day 27: HEADCANON-My Raoul is a Composite Character

Day 26: PHANART-Erik x Mirrorbride

Day 25: (no post, Shabbat)

Day 24: GIFSET-Random POTO Broadway Phantom Gifs

Day 23: PHOTOSET/HEADCANON-La Sorelli in ALW

Day 22: VIDEO-Moisten the Lad

Day 21: PHOTOSET- POTO Uganda

Day 20: PHANART: Erik and his Violin

Day 19: FANFIC - All Vows Chapter 39

Day 18: (no post, Shabbat)

Day 17: PHANART- Various crack posts and inside jokes illustrated by @bonzlydoo

Day 16: PHOTOSET-Joe-Griffiths Brown feeding the people what they want as Raoul

Day 15: HEADCANON/Raoul Navy Uniform Musings

Day 14: GIFSET-Ethan Freeman bows to the monkey.

DAY 13: LEROUX: HAPPY BIRTHDAY GASTON LEROUX (Ethan Freeman Reads Leroux)

Day 12: FANFIC: All Vows Chapter 38: my longfic that will be concluding at the end of May.

Day 11: (no post, Shabbat)

Day 10: FANFIC: All Vows Chapter 10 (Catch Up)

Day 9: ADAPTATION: Ghost of Zariya Hollow

Day 8: HEADCANON: Christine's Swedish Accent

Day 7: COSPLAY Hannibal Slave Girl Bodice Construction

Day 6: GIFSET: Raouls who make choices appreciation post

Day 5: PHIC UPDATE: All Vows Chapter 37! (And a bonus gif of Lily and Jon)

Day 4: (No post, Shabbat)

Day 3: GIFSET: Cape Twirl Comparison, Current West End Phantoms ('23-'24)

Day 2: BRAINWORM: "Ne Me Touchez Pas"

Day 1: GIFSET Robyns/Kerhoas: The Kiss