Try this test. Ask 100 fellow Jews the following simple question; What’s the next Jewish holiday? I would imagine that 90 of them will answer “Shavuot” while 9 might say “Lag B’omer”. That comes to 99 wrong answers. First of all, Lag B’omer is not a holiday. While it is a very important day on the Jewish calendar, there is no Hallel and the day itself is really just a big “yahrzeit” for the great Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Yes, many people – hundreds of thousands, actually – ma