Lag BaOmer: The Power of Perseverance

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shmuel Silber’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

All right, good evening everyone. Let us let us begin. So first of all, it's an incredible host to resume giving this sheer bar Hashem. I know it's been a little while. I think our last year was a pre-Pesach pre-Pesach preparation sheer with the Haggadah. So baruch Hashem, now we find ourselves in the midst of Sefirah. First of all, our sheer tonight is dedicated by the Engelsberg, Dinovitzer, and Steinberg families le'iluy nishmas Rav Yitzchak Dovid ben Meir Aryeh zechrono livracha. We hope that in merit of the Torah and Torah that the neshama have an aliyah and the family in nachama. So I know that this is the the resumption resuming of our of our Sefirat HaOmer series, but the truth is being that we are but a day away from Lag BaOmer, I thought that it would be a an incredible opportunity to shed a little bit of light and to shed a little bit of understanding upon this awesome and incredible and overwhelming day. A day that often kind of goes by without that much notice, but a day that we're going to learn together Hashem has incredible kedusha. And the truth is again, especially in a year like this where this year Lag BaOmer represents the first yahrtzeit of the 45 kedoshim, of the 45 precious neshamos who lost their lives in Meron last year. It's an interesting thing because a day that as we're going to see represents the cessation of the death of Rabbi Akiva's students became again a day of another 45 yahrtzeits. And so we come into this Lag BaOmer of course excited, filled with simcha for the simple reason that a Jew has to come into every experience excited and filled with simcha, yet at the same time with a little bit of a

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2. 4:19But the truth is halacha is also the way in which Chazal, in which the rabbis…
3. 9:06Hidden Torah. Esoteric Torah. Mystical Torah. That Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai had gotten from his rebbe…
4. 13:23"Ula'erev al tonach yadecha." But in the evening, don't withdraw your hand. "Ki eincha yodea eizeh…
5. 18:05wholly and fully disappear. Everything disappears. Everything disappears. "V'haya ha'olam shamem." The world was absolutely desolate,…
6. 22:50had. And he had a father-in-law who came around like a little bit later. Rabbi Akiva…
7. 27:09daughters was asking me. She said to me, "You know, Tati, I I think that if…
8. 32:01This is the story of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. Now, this is a of Rabbi Shimon…
9. 36:43sapling from a barrel, but my sapling, our sapling, he watered from the flask. Why is…
10. 41:31And it all intersects on Lag B'Omer. Two men who came from so much pain. Rabbi…

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