This is the day that two things happened:
1) A small boy named akiva, never learned torah. He married a girl from a rich family and they were both banned from her father's home. At fourty, in the forest, he noticed water dripping on a rock. Due to erosion after many years the water had made a hole in the rock. When akiva saw this, he said to himself, I am like that rock. I too can learn torah, it's never too late to learn torah. He went to learn and came back with many followers as people realized how great this man became. When he passed away, his students all took his teachings in different ways and had a hard time getting along with one another. Hashem; upset with what he saw; send a plague and the students began dying. From after Passover they died each day yet on Lag b'omer they stopped. |
