Lag B'Oymer

What are you counting if you are counting the oymer?

• The stars in the sky and the grains of sand.

• The 49 days between peysekh and shevues

• The traditional harvest days.

• The 49 steps

List the sorts of things that observant Jews CAN’T do during the Oymer but CAN do on Lag B’Oymer.

What historical time period is connected to Lag Boymer?

• The Persian Empire

• The British Empire

• The Roman Empire

• The Greek Empire

What were the Jews forbidden to do, by the occupying army?

Who was Bar Kochba?

• One of 24,000 students who died from a plague

• A great Rabbi who established a Yeshive

• A teacher and student of Rabbi Akiva who lived in a cave

• The leader of a rebellion

Who was Rabbi Akiva?

• A great Rabbi who established a Yeshive.

• A teacher and student of Rabbi Akiva who lived in a cave.

• The leader of a rebellion.

• One of 24,000 students who died from a plague.

Who was Shimon Bar Yokhai?

• A great Rabbi who established a Yeshive.

• One of 24,000 students who died from a plague.

• A teacher and student of Rabbi Akiva who lived in a cave.

• A teacher and student of Rabbi Akiva who lived in a cave.

The students took bows and arrows to trick the soldiers. What was the trick? 

What do you think about they did?