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Was anyone in meron at kever rashbi this lag ba’omer? Were the traffic and crowds as bad as the news reports say?
Yea, it’s incredible.
Went for the first time this year. Heard there were problems with transportation at night because of a fire in the area. One of the buses from my neighborhood did not make it up. I went in the afternoon on Sunday. Left a little too late, but was still there in time to get in to the tziun and even saw the lighting of the Toldos Aaron hadlaka. It was really beautiful. TONS of people. It was really packed in the area of the kever. People need to know not to spend time inside. Just saw a few tefillos and go out to let others have the same opportunity. My daughter and I almost got crushed by the people pushing to get in. It takes away a little bit from the specialness of the time there, but being that it is sefirah, have to work on bein odom lechaveiro and dan them lekav zechus. I imagine that they really have tzaros and took the opportunity to daaven on the yahrzeit.
I was on Route 85 this past summer, just on a regular day, and already then, the traffic was horrendous & at a standstill for hours.
I always avoid big crowds, so would never go to Meron on Lag b’Omer. & now even more so after what happened at a huge crowd dispersed over a huge area in Boston on April 15, 2013, I surely would not go to Meron on Lag b’Omer which also is a huge crwod dispersed over a huge area.
If something about Route 85 isn’t done very imminently, there is going to be a mass Chilul Shabbos on Route 85 during 2021 & 2025, when Lag b’Omer occurs on a Friday.
It was very messed up this year. I have bene going to Meron for 6 years and live near by so i know the routes,etc.I left Meron at 3:30 am on Motzei Shabbos/Sunday Morning to get home with some friends.We live nearby. We got to the bus parking lots which are usually very organized and there were only 2 busses and at least 500 people trying to get on.We decided to walk back to Tzfat.Since we are from around the area, we cut through the forests but before that we walked dwon the road.It looked like Krias Yam Suf. 1000’s of yidden walking towards meron from miles away.. We eventually made it back after four hours.Im not mad at the transportation since i wasnt travelling with anybody in my family but if i had kids with me or my wife, i would not have been able to hike back. Hopefully next year they fix it up. The main problem was that the main parking lot got full very early and cause major traffic jams.
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