Why Celebrate on Lag Ba’Omer? Part ¼

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

we're about to enter into one of the most mysterious holidays of the year a holiday that will pass you right by and we'll miss the opportunity to really delve into something special it's called logba Omer for most people like Mom isn't really a holiday right first of all it didn't make the level of Passover Russia Yom Kippur and for many um it's seriously Omar during the beginning of serious Homer the count between pesach and shuvoice we celebrate parts of national mourning right there's no shaving and no haircuts no live music and wedding celebrations and we don't have any of that because we are mourning the students of reikiva Ms gamara tells us reikivo the greatest Rabbi of his time of the greatest rabbis of his time had 24 000 students all throughout Israel and they die during this period of time and so we celebrate some level of mourning for them student right recruited 24 000 students

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1. 0:00we're about to enter into one of the most mysterious holidays of the year a holiday…
2. 0:30parts of national mourning right there's no shaving and no haircuts no live music and wedding…
3. 1:02they died he went South afterwards raised five more students and one of them he died…
4. 1:33but the question is why we have this holiday for like why do we end it…
5. 2:03imajos and all of you that died I mean just six million Jews just died we…
6. 2:34know who is maybe one of the greatest we celebrate and then it ends the morning…

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