Alef Kasav (ד"תרפ) writes, "[Reb Mendel Litman from Tzefas] told that the Or HaChaim cried the entire night of Lag b'Omer at the time of the hadlakah. He stood from a distance, saying, 'How can I come to this holy place where Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, and all tzaddikim are present?!'"
Reb Shmuel Heller zt'l tells about the time Reb Chaim ben Atar, the Or HaChaim HaKodesh, came to Meron for Lag b'Omer: "When he reached the bottom of the mountain of Meron, he got off his donkey and crawled up the mountain on his hands and knees, and grunted like an animal the entire way. He shouted, 'How can the lowly me enter this awesome place where Hakadosh Baruch Hu, all the angels, and souls of tzaddikim are present?!' And at the hillulah he was very happy."
May we all be zocheh to tap into the hashpaos and kedushah of this incredible day!
