• The sign of this month is an ox is eating grass.
• .This is the second month. Nissan the month of Passover is the first month of the year.
• The name is of Babylonian origin.
• The whole month of Iyar we count *Sefiros HaOmer.
• Rabbi Pinchas Stolper on Lag BaOmer = 33 rd day and the turbulent history surrounding the times
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14th of Iyar: Second Pesach A person who didn't bring a sacrifice and eat the marror and matzah had another opportunity on this day.

*Sefiros (Safire= Clarifying) HaOmer

• From the second night of passover while still in the month of Nissan we start the counting to Shavouth. This is the holiday of our acceptance of the Torah in the Jewish month of Sivan.This period of counting is called the counting of Sefiros HaOmer.
• Most of the Crusades happened durring this time.
• Days of Purification
• The students of Rabbi Akiva were stricken durring these days durring this intense judgement.
• The Mitzva of Loving our Jewish Neighbors as Ourselves is crucial at this time getting us ready for accepting the Torah.