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The Secret of Lag Ba'Omer - Rabbi Mendel Kessin

5.3K views · May 14, 2017

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

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Uh tonight is like um mishab is like so I thought therefore it would be appropriate to give a shir about like um it's interesting you know just the way it's celebrated is with a huge bonfire and Um uh so what I'd like to go into actually is to resolve certain questions which I think really in in many ways the answers think really in in many ways the answers of which would highlight what lag ba is really about. I I think most people are into lag bima are just into lag bima they I think most people don't really understand the tremendous uh hashkaf significance of lag bima you know so there are several questions first of all why is it celebrated with a bonfire you know and they're huge you know they that's why I'm making as big as possible so that's the first question you can ask another question is ask another question is um we know we Notice that there are only two individuals whose yacht sites are celebrated or commemorated by hundreds of thousands of people and that'su right which is occurs on and which occurs on which is one is is an is a name, you know, she's one is is an is a name, you know, she's um uh as I say, she's the matriarch, you know, but why her? No other of or aim of the Jewish people is celebrated, you know. So there are thousands and thousands of people on that go to Israel. Rab Shiman is a Tano. He's one of the people obviously one of the great tamid of ribba and uh but he's a tana he's not an

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  1. 0:08Uh tonight is like um mishab is like so I thought therefore it would be appropriate
  2. 5:25event that we see the phenomena itself and the cause of that phenomena most of reality
  3. 10:34entire the entire reality physical reality is explained by that or all of it. science, whatever
  4. 15:40other words even your free will cannot destroy 10% of uh you mean there has to
  5. 21:21day that the mobble happened, should have happened, which is really the messianic light that should
  6. 27:04her hey I don't want to know you anymore that means she would not be an
  7. 32:13to his reckoning the mabble happened on when it happened on right according to him right
  8. 37:18word. What does that mean? You have to know the hoger of God. You know, if
  9. 42:25light. He dies on that day to show that he gave the messianic light not in
  10. 47:31water it covers the earth mama is that interesting you know so therefore that's why and

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