After activists attempted to organize a lighting ceremony in honor of the Rashbi's celebration at the tomb of Rabbi Akiva, led by the tzaddik Grad Kook - the Grad disavowed it.
""To sit and study on Lag BaOmer and not go anywhere," he said.
In a letter he wrote after rumors were spread that he would hold a lighting ceremony on Lag BaOmer at the tomb of Rabbi Akiva, he disavows the publications and offers to sit and study all day.
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And so he wrote: "To the entire holy public, Lag BaOmer is a time for my eyes to open and I will see wonders from your Torah. I wish I could sit and study all day and not travel at all.".
""I myself have nothing to do with the fake advertisement they published. I certainly wouldn't come there at a time when there is no return of thought to prayer, but rather urgency that does not involve sanctification of God.".
""I suggest and ask everyone not to travel. This is an idle trip, mainly for sightseeing. Only those who cry at every prayer will come and add something. Good news.".
In another recording that we are publishing, we see the head of the 'Ateret Shlomo' yeshiva, Rabbi Shalom Ber Sorotzkin, asking on behalf of a man from abroad who wishes to come to the Holy Land for Lag BaOmer - and Rabbi Kook replies that he will not come and will remain abroad.
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