Police are preparing ahead of Lag B’Omer on Monday night to enforce restrictions on the public forbidding bonfires and large gatherings.
Police forces will be increased in cities, forests, beaches, parks and open areas beginning on Monday through Wednesday, and will be reinforced by police aerial units which will be on the lookout for gatherings or bonfires from Israeli skies. Anyone caught violating the emergency orders may be fined up to NIS 500 ($142).
About 2,500 police officers from the Northern District, Border Patrol and Traffic Division units will be deployed for the operation.
The police sealed off the kever of Rav Shimon bar Yochai last night and only residents of the town of Meron will be allowed entry.
Below is a video published by the Health Ministry as part of a campaign to the Chareidi public to adhere to health regulations on Lag B’omer:
בכל קמפיין הקורונה, דסק הוידאו במטה ההסברה שניהל חיים גרידינגר הבריקו ביצירתיות.
הנה עוד הברקה חזקקה: pic.twitter.com/a9ddbo1zVr— מני גירא שורץ (@menishwartz) May 11, 2020
As usual, coronavirus restrictions are swiftly followed by attempts to find the humor in every situation. Lag B’Omer 2020 is no exception:
לג בעומר 2020 pic.twitter.com/lh5ji3lb77
— shlomo (@Shlomo61) May 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/87mayan/status/1259222676729716738?s=20
לג בעומר תש"פ pic.twitter.com/URogrbJf0p
— Hasidic (@hasidic_1) May 10, 2020
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Those who violate the laws of Israeli Government to make bonfires are a creation unto themselves, descendants perhaps of the Molechites of old.
Are the 25,000 officers over the limit of social distancing regulations? Are they all masked?
Yapchick: “Are the 25,000 officers over the limit of social distancing regulations? Are they all masked?
The 2500 who were officially there were spaced over several hundred square KM in and around Meron and wore masks and were properly socially distanced.
The other 22, 500 must have sneaked past the 2500 and obviously were in violation of the regulations.
There is no authentic Jewish source for this pagan custom!!
The Hatam Sofer even wrote a tshuva against this.
It is about time people realized that these customs associated with lag baomer are a distorted perversion of authentic Judaism, barely resembling the original.
These people have invented a whole collection of fairy tales and customs based on superstition that are contrary to authentic Judaism.
On a lighter vein Regarding the bonfire:
When I was a little boy my bubby used to warn me the when you play with fire you wet at night.
Didn’t these pyromaniacs ever have a bubby to warn them?