Lag BaOmer: A Celebration of Resilience and Hope

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ing the minhagim of aos and you'll recall that virtually all of the minhagim except a certain minute of uh considers lagba omare to be a a special day in which the ais of the spir ends. Now I did mention a minute of many that actually mentions himself mentions that they observe 33 full days of mourning from the second day of pes throughba omare and then they mira uh the restrictions from the 34th day of the omr. But every other min even the min of the goes 49 days straight uh does have a hiatus or a break in magba omr. Now the idea of where did lag bomra become a festive day why did it become a festive day so there are two different kashbonos why lagba became a festive day uh reason number one is that there's a tradition that the students of rabiaka stopped dying on lag bulmer now there's a mlo if I say lag bulmer is the end of the ais so the shot would be that's when they stopped of course you could ask a Well, they stopped because there was nobody else left to die. I mean, if 24 had 24,000 students and uh they all died and they stopped dying in Lag B. So, is that a sima? Because I mean no nobody's left. But the short answer is that this was a mafa. The mafa could have spread to other circles. Remember Abika did start with five toidum. And by the way, we sometimes don't pay don't don't pay attention to that part of the story. It's an amazing thing. You struggle for 24 years to become a aim, a great person. Your wife suffered for all of that period. You finally achieved such

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1. 0:00ing the minhagim of aos and you'll recall that virtually all of the minhagim except a…
2. 3:35their whole families, but they came and they started again. They didn't give up. And that's…
3. 7:44the tyra the sodos of the tyra the zakadesh and that is the source of the…
4. 11:26have hundreds of thousands of people and uh some have said Meron is so crowded on…
5. 15:32even if they're like touching them. Uh so if they're close enough, if there's less than…
6. 19:38seven days in a week. So kashame that every week is connected one of the spheras.…
7. 23:26um 33rd day of the omare that is 4 weeks and 5 days. So you understand…
8. 27:33characteristic? It's hard to know. I don't really have a tremendous answer. Maybe they had such…
9. 31:11famous between Rabbi Shim and Rabbi Ishmael and the Pakeshma where Hashem says if you do…
10. 35:23of us we got to make plans we got to work Of course, it's from Hashem,…

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