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The Light of Lag B’Omer    The Light of Lag B’Omer

The light of the fires on Lag B’Omer is the light of the Torah, and the light of Hashem. This light is in our souls, and it’s what is truly burning inside. 
 
 Lag B Lag B'Omer
 
 
Building Bonfires  
  Building Bonfires  
 
By Yehudit Levy
Update date: 5/9/2020, 21:49
 
It is so easy to be introspective upon the bad we do, the mistakes we make, the misgivings we have. Yet how many of us do any introspection upon our good points?  

First Letdown, then Light  
  First Letdown, then Light  
 
By Rabbi Lazer Brody
Update date: 4/12/2020, 12:46
 
A person does everything to strengthen emuna and get closer to Hashem, only to find that life is even more difficult than it was before. What's going on?  

Almost in Meron  
  Almost in Meron  
 
By Dr. Rivka Levron
Update date: 5/11/2020, 07:29
 
My husband and I had tickets for a bus from Beitar to Meron leaving at 1pm on Lag B'Omer. But hundreds of people were waiting, and there were no buses…  

Soothing the National Pain  
  Soothing the National Pain  
 
By Rabbi Lazer Brody
Update date: 4/12/2020, 12:41
 
Israel has a long list of aches and troubles, from within and from without. Yet, the unity of Lag B’Omer soothes the national pain. That in itself is reason to celebrate.  

Meron on Lag B  
  Meron on Lag B'Omer  
 
By Dovid Rossoff
Update date: 5/2/2018, 14:08
 
Families came from as far away as Damascus and Baghdad. Bonfires were lit in honor of the Rashbi, and the men danced to the beat of drums and flutes...  

Lag B  
  Lag B'Omer 1923  
 
By Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles
Update date: 7/24/2020, 09:01
 
The word spread quickly. Almost instantaneously, melancholy gloom replaced the exuberant rejoicing. The singing stopped, the dancers froze; the mother's...  

Breslev Lag B  
  Breslev Lag B'Omer Customs  
 
By Rabbi Dovid Sears
Update date: 5/11/2020, 07:28
 
On the Shabbat before Lag b'Omer in the Breslover communities of Yerushalayim, Williamsburg, Monsey, and Borough Park...  

Count on Rebbe Shimon!  
  Count on Rebbe Shimon!  
 
By Rabbi Lazer Brody
Update date: 5/9/2020, 21:50
 
Why do hundreds of thousands of people frequent Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai's holy gravesite in Meron every Lag B'Omer? They have someone to count on...  

On Haircuts and Accountability  
  On Haircuts and Accountability  
 
By Debbie Shapiro
Update date: 5/9/2020, 21:51
 
My thoughts returned to my newfound friend. I virtuously continued, "Turn it over to God. Pray to Him, do what you have to do to rectify the situation...  

Praising the Chef - Lag B  
  Praising the Chef - Lag B'Omer  
 
By Rabbi Lazer Brody
Update date: 5/9/2020, 21:50
 
Lag B'Omer has the power of Yom Kippur in wiping away our spiritual debts, yet today, we can eat, drink and rejoice as well, thanks to the Master Chef...  

Rashbi’s Passing  
  Rashbi’s Passing  
 
By Rabbi Moshe Miller
Update date: 5/9/2020, 21:52
 
Lag B’omer is the anniversary of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai’s exit from the physical world. The Zohar in Idra Zuta gives a moving account of what happened…  

The Fires of Lag B  
  The Fires of Lag B'Omer  
 
By Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum
Update date: 5/9/2020, 21:51
 
Is the purpose of the bon-fires on Lag B’Omer to consume all the accumulated garden waste? Or is there a deeper reason behind lighting fires on this holy day?  

Rashbi and His Circle  
  Rashbi and His Circle  
 
By Rabbi Moshe Miller
Update date: 4/29/2018, 10:36
 
Although Rabbi Shimon is best known as the author of the Zohar, he also holds an important place in the revealed aspects of Torah, the Talmud and associated work…  

 
 
  
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