The Lesson Of Lag B’Omer – today is Lag B’omer the 33rd Day of the Omer which marks (among other things) the celebration, that the plague which unfortunately killed 24,000 of Rabbi Akivah’s students leaving but 5 (including Rabbi Shimoin Bar Yochio) ended – our sages teach – why did God cause such a catastrophic plague? – because they did not respect one another.