The Metamorphosis of Rebbi Shimon Bar Yochai
Rebbi Shimon Bar Yochai: The difference between the man who entered the cave and the man who left the cave. Delivered at the OU Israel Center, May 3rd, 2018 (18 Iyyar 5778)
A Deeper Look at Lag BaOmer
Rebbi Akiva’s students represented the continuation of the Torah after the churban. Since they were not fully qualified because of their behavior, the Torah transmitted through them to all future generations...
Lag Ba’Omer in Krakow: The Life and Times of...
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Saving the Thorns
Lag B’Omer at the Fire: Rebbe Akiva’s Frustrated Messianic...
How does learning the Zohar cause us to merit the final redemption? Why does the gemara say the world was desolate after Rebbi Akiva’s students died – they weren’t the only...
Lag B’Omer: The Selection of Rav Chaim Vital, the...
The tradition of kabbalah from the Arizal, his disciple Rav Chaim Vital, and how kabbalah was handed down through the generations via Rav Yisroel Saruk and the Rama MiPano. Download the...
Counting Up, Counting Down
Physicists teach us that the movement of time is constant through space. It moves on and on with the precision and consistency of the finest timepiece. Tick, tick, tick. At times...
Lag BaOmer Like Never Before: The Two Astounding Revelations...
The Chatam Sofer questions why the yahrtzeit of R’ Shimon bar Yochai warrants a holiday – we generally don’t celebrate a yahrtzeit! He then enumerates four historical events occurred on Lag...
Lag BaOmer: A Chassidic Approach
What does the Gemara mean that Rabbi Akiva’s students “לא נהגו כבוד זה לזה” and that losing those 12,000 pairs of students caused the world to be desolate? How did Rabbi...
Composing Vessels
What is the difference between the Zohar, composed by R’ Shimon Bar Yochai while hiding in the cave, and the other sefarim on the Chumash written beforehand?
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