MyLife: Chassidus Applied

Ep. 498: How Does Rabbi Shimeon Bar Yochai Help Us Deal with Our Present Challenges?

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What does Lag B’Omer teach us today? 

  • How does Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai help us deal with our challenges? 
  • Why is this day so special? 
  • What is the source that Lag B’Omer is the day of Rashbi’s Hilula? 
  • Why can we listen to music and make weddings on Lag B’Omer? 
  • Did the Rebbe suggest that we visit the Ohel on this day? 
  • Is there an alternative for someone who can’t go to the Ohel? 
  • Why don’t we celebrate with a parade on other special days of the year? 
  • Why is there a custom to light bonfires on Lag B’Omer? 
  • How could the students of Rabbi Akiva defy their teacher’s cardinal rule about loving another? 
  • Why did the students of Rabbi Akiva die in an epidemic – does not respecting another warrant the death penalty? 
  • Why do we say Lag B’Omer, but don’t say Tu B’Av? 
  • Should we be relying on the segulos associated with Lag B’Omer? 
  • Segulos don't seem to work for me. What should I do differently? 
  • What can we learn from Rashbi living 12 years in a cave? 
  • Is there a connection between Lag B’Omer and Moshiach? 
  • Is it connected to the Zohar? 
  • And if so, how does it relate to Chassidus? 
  • Who was Moses de Leon, and what role did he play in disseminating the Zohar? 
    • What do we learn from this parsha? 
    • What is the connection between this parsha and Lag B’Omer? 
    • Why are engraved letters higher than written ones? 
      • What is the significance of the month of Iyar and the general time between Pesach and Shavuos? Follow-up 
        • If Sinai teaches us the lesson of humility, why was the Torah given on a mountain altogether? 
          • Why are we not gathering daily and holding prayer vigils and public reciting of Torah and Tehillim and tzedakah beseeching heaven to free the hostages and end this evil war? 
          • Where are our leaders? 

            • Bechukosei Iyar Sinai Why did the Rebbe not go to Israel? Follow-up 
            War with Hamas 

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