Did you think that processions on Lag BaOmer were an invention of Chabad?
In the notes published by the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schneider, the rabbi of the Shteinman clan, he writes what the Rosh Yeshiva told about Lag BaOmer in the city of Brisk where he grew up, which was in those days in the territory of Poland - and is now in Belarus: "Our rabbi says that in the city of Brisk, all the children of the TAT would walk down the street on Lag BaOmer, with a band, and they would hand out a 'hard-boiled egg' to each one. That was the candy they handed out to the children.".
The Grail said that he remembers himself happily coming home with the egg...
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But one year things went a little wrong: "Once the Polish Minister of the Interior died, and the government declared seven days of mourning - that nothing joyful was allowed during these days. The seventh day of mourning fell on Lag BaOmer. They asked one of the rabbis of the city of Brisk - what should be done? And he allowed to do Lag BaOmer.".
We asked that teacher - what made him think this was permissible?
The rabbi replied: I understood that the organizer of the procession benefited from this, a few zlotys (the Polish currency)... and since, in the author's opinion, it is permissible to celebrate in Balad, I made it easier for him for the purpose of earning a living...""
