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Mount Meron (Hebrew: הַר מֵירוֹן, Har Meron; Arabic: جبل الجرمق, Jabal al-Jarmaq) [1] is a mountain in the Upper Galilee region of Israel. It has special significance in Jewish religious tradition and parts of it have been declared a nature reserve.
Meron (Hebrew: מֵירוֹן, Meron) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located on the slopes of Mount Meron in the Upper Galilee near Safed, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. Meron is most famous for the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, and is the site of annual mass public commemoration of Lag Ba'Omer.
Archaeological excavation on Mount Meron started in the 1920s. Substantial remains from the Roman period were found but only meager findings from earlier times. [5] The theory that Ein Meron spring at the foot of the mountain could be the "waters of Merom" of Joshua 11:5 and Joshua 11:7 was thus hard to support. [5]
The "waters of Merom" used to be identified with a lake ten miles north of the Sea of Galilee, formed by the River Jordan. [3]The "waters of Merom" were previously thought to be Lake Hula, but this is disputed and the name was more likely to apply to a spring or stream in the area.
According to Joshua 11 in the Hebrew Bible, the Battle of the Waters of Merom was a battle between the Israelites and a coalition of Canaanite city-states near the Waters of Merom. Archaeologist Nadav Na'aman has suggested that this battle definitely took place, and that its narrative "preserved some remote echoes of wars conducted in these ...
According to a late medieval tradition, Simeon ben Yochai is buried in Meron, and this association has spawned several well-known customs and practices on Lag BaOmer, including the lighting of bonfires and pilgrimages to Meron. [3] Additionally, in modern-day Israel, the holiday also serves to commemorate the Bar Kokhba revolt against the ...
The crush was the deadliest civilian disaster in Israel's history, [28] surpassing the 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire, which killed 44. [55] Netanyahu called it a "great tragedy" and said that everyone was praying for the victims. [55] He also declared 2 May 2021 a national day of mourning. [56] Several cultural activities were cancelled. [57]
The Bobover Rav, Ben Zion Halberstam sent a letter from Poland to his Chassidim in Israel asking them to donate chai rotel in Meron on this holy day on behalf of a couple that did not have children. [23] Several local organizations solicit donations of chai rotel and hand out the drinks on the donor's behalf in Meron on Lag BaOmer. Nine months ...