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[singing] [music] [singing and music] [music] [singing] [music] >> Okay, everybody say a friend of a friend of them. We like to invite all of our friends. >> [music] >> If anybody would like to join us, come take a seat. Let's bring the older ones to take a seat. [music] Jaime, come take a seat, Sandra. We'd love to have you. We invite the Ganza Island. Oh, Jaime, that's so nice you come sit so fast. Okay, everybody say a few short words tonight. I'd like to just for a few minutes answer some of the questions. What is going on tonight? You may have noticed that there's a very high level of simcha happening right now. People are dancing. Anybody saw that I don't know you call it capoeira. The the upside down push-up stuff. That was a Right, Ronnie? That was amazing. He was very good. Upside down capoeira push-ups. And I don't think he was practicing. It just comes out, you know. Why are people young old men somersaulting at the Kotel? Why is this such a happiness on this day? What is this day all about? That we find it that there's bonfires and happiness. What's with the bonfires? What's with this exceptional happiness? And why on this day of Lag BaOmer which of course is the hilula of Adonenu Bar Yochai the day that Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai sent his soul up to shamayim. Why do we find on this day a happiness that's so tremendous? We don't seem to see this for any other day that a tzaddik goes up to shamayim. Why not Rabbi Akiva's yahrtzeit? Do we even know when that is? Why don't we make big deals? The biggest biggest tzaddikim Avraham Avinu, Yitzchak, Yaakov. Why don't we light bonfires then? Something about Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai Adonenu Bar Yochai.
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- 10:32And the guy is like, I don't know. Like Uh, like I'm I don't know like…
- 15:31A gift to rediscover the hidden light. You know what that gift is called? It's called…
- 20:39The feelings of this day are beyond my friends. And it's a gift. And Reb Tzaddik…
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- 30:55Because what the wife is about to say is what this day is. He wakes up…
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