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An exploration of the Kabbalistic meaning behind the tragic death of 24,000 students and the deeper spiritual lessons of Lag BaOmer.
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- 0:00To take the 24,000 of the greatest Torah sages that they should die a horrific death…
- 1:30connected to mourning until around the common era when the students of Rabbi Akiva finally die.…
- 3:31everything has a reason." It's It's I I think it's unbearable. We are stuck behind the…
- 5:36So, when the sages say 12,000 pairs of students died, let's let's let's open this up.…
- 7:40to go back to the secret of the letter aleph. And there's a beautiful lesson. We've…
- 9:42competition to to beat a selfish motivations to to to and and there was really a…
- 11:12heart. It's everything. I'm giving you me when I give you this Torah." And that's why…
- 13:16the Torah that makes them one and their ideas one and unites them. And so, Torah…
- 15:21a destructive fire that that that that that separates and destroys the oneness and unity that…
- 17:23course, selfishly separated from each other and made the peru, they made destruction. And so therefore,…
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