Rabbi Yitzchak Botton - Beyond Bonfires: Why Lag Ba'omer and Rabbi Shimon?

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today's discussion will be about the uh very uh well-known festivities that are going to be taking place soon lag by omer you know living in america it's funny you know they we do celebrate lag by omar but i didn't understand the whole concept of of the bonfires and how big of an idea it is until coming to israel in israel for about a month proceeding like omer all the kids in you shalom and all over are gathering and collecting all these pieces of wood i don't know where they find it but somehow it's a miracle every year year they find enough wood to make these huge bonfires everywhere i don't know where they get it from because it's what they find it's not like they're buying lumber for it so i guess i don't know the the the the luck miracle of finding enough wood every year for these huge huge bonfires uh the other interesting thing i noticed here only in israel uh you know it says god's eyes are on israel all the time so i'm sure he's protecting uh protecting everyone especially the children is kids these kids that are even three bar mitzvah age they're running around they want to make they're running around they want to make their own they make their own bonfires you know i walk from my home just across the trail behind the set of buildings which has an open grass area and unlike one kid decides to make his own little fire over here another kid making his own fire over there there's like you know bonfires everywhere little ones you know you know sometimes they you know if you collect the age of all the kids together you can't even reach 21 which would get you a drink in america anyway so you know so so because of this whole you know

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