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Lag Ba'omer

5778 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
Why Do We Rejoice on Lag Ba'Omer?
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5775 | Rabbi Daniel Mann
Does Acknowledging Lag Ba’omer Count as Counting?
Ein Ayah Lag Ba'omer
Rabbi Stewart Weiss
Post-Atzmaut musings: Rabbi Akiva and the Hillel sandwich
5771 | Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
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Lag Ba'omer
Iyar 5768 | Rabbi David Dov Levanon
Rashbi - Basing Law on Thought
Many Jews visit the grave of Rashbi on Lag BaOmer, but the real point of this occasion is to attach oneself to this righteous sage through his teachings. The sages thus say, “We do not make gravestones for the righteous; their words are their memory.”
Lag Ba'omer
Iyar 5767 | Rabbi Ya'akov Peleg
Success and Ideal
Why do we continue to praise and commemorate the activities of Rabbi Akiva and Bar Kokhba generation after generation? Was not their war on the Romans a reckless step, a lost cause that brought nothing but tragedy and hardship upon the Jewish people?
Lag Ba'omer
5765 | Rabbi Gideon Weitzman
Lag Ba'omer The Physical Spiritual
Lag Ba'omer
5755 | Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaLevi Kilav
Lag Ba'omer R' Yehuda the Head Speaker
R Yehuda said, “How pleasant are the doings of this nation (Rome). They have built marketplaces, bridges, and bathhouses.” R' Yose kept quiet. R' Shimon ben Yochai responded, saying, “Everything they have built, they have built for their own good.”
Lag Ba'omer
Iyar 5761 | Rabbi Chaim Avihau Schwartz
Shifting the Focus of Lag Ba'Omer
Focus on R. Akiva The Spokesman Who Were the "Students"? His Greatness
Lag Ba'omer Other Great Leaders
Iyar 5761 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Lag BaOmer
The accepted way of marking the death of a righteous person is by fasting. How then is it that Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's expiration has become occasion for joy and festivity?
Lag Ba'omer

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