Lag Ba’omer, Rashbi and Rainbows

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

[Music] between Passover and Shu we have a special Mitzvah called to count the OM as it says in this week's par Leviticus 23:15 it states and you shall count to yourselves from the marrow of the day of rest and the Ra's imp positive rest and the Ra's imp positive commandment 161 states that this represents the Mitzvah of that each individual is to commanded to count 49 days from the second day of Passover until the holiday of shiv what is the meaning behind this counting and what is the purpose of this Counting so the tells us in mitvah so the tells us in mitvah 306 he says that and that is that the essence of the Jews is the Torah and this is the reason why God created the world and this is the reason why God took the Jews out of the land of Egypt as it says but God told Moses that I'm taking the Jews God told Moses that I'm taking the Jews out of Egypt so that they shall serve me on the mountain so it says the that the idea of count started with the Jews when the Jews heard that God was taking them out of Egypt in order to give them the Torah they were so excited that they began to count every day when are we going to get the Torah today we're one day closer and another day closer another day closer to receiving the Torah from God and that is

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1. 0:02[Music] between Passover and Shu we have a special Mitzvah called to count the OM as…
2. 2:41expounded upon in a letter to RAB schlom from the Reb the Reb writes him a…
3. 5:54Era RAB AKA a great teacher of the Torah had 24,000 students 24,000 of his greatest…
4. 8:34students also stopped and ceased dying on this day alludes to the fact that the essence…
5. 11:41the external part of their soul was revealed but not the internal part and because the…
6. 14:50came the day of the day of G open up my eyes when you open up…
7. 17:30the rainbow so therefore every time a rainbow is seen in the sky we get worried…
8. 20:33bad thing we're not going to make the BR if it's a good thing we're going…
9. 23:11God not only when you're studying Torah know God not only when you give charity but…
10. 26:14about our needs not only that we have the essentials that you have a bed and…

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