RELATED:Keep safe on Lag Ba'Omer!This year, Lag Ba'Omer falls on a Saturday night; however, as lighting fire on the Sabbath is not halachically permissible, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger decided that bonfires should be lit on Sunday night.A letter from the rabbis was read on Radio Kol Chai, a haredi radio station, on Wednesay."In recent generations there are many that are not strict in their observance of Torah and mitzvot, and there are heavy suspicions that having Lag Ba'Omer on Saturday night will cause a desecration of the Sabbath," the letter explained.
Lag Ba'Omer postponed out of concern for Sabbath
Chief rabbis, Ovadia Yosef rule that bonfires will be lit on Sunday, not Saturday, to avoid desecration of the Sabbath.
RELATED:Keep safe on Lag Ba'Omer!This year, Lag Ba'Omer falls on a Saturday night; however, as lighting fire on the Sabbath is not halachically permissible, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger decided that bonfires should be lit on Sunday night.A letter from the rabbis was read on Radio Kol Chai, a haredi radio station, on Wednesay."In recent generations there are many that are not strict in their observance of Torah and mitzvot, and there are heavy suspicions that having Lag Ba'Omer on Saturday night will cause a desecration of the Sabbath," the letter explained.