Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:
 16 Iyar 

• Why don’t we recite the Parsha about Manna every day, as well as the Ten Commandments, like we do the Parsha of the Akeidah, as stated in Shulchan Aruch?  

• What is the significance of this special day? 
• How could the students of Rabbi Akiva not respect each other to the point of it causing a plague? 
• Why don’t we see such harsh consequences (G-d forbid) due to other acts of disrespect in our times? 
• How did the Mitteler Rebbe celebrate Lag B’Omer? 
• Why was it a day of miracles? 
• How can Lag B’Omer open up channels of connection between parents and children? 
• What is the source that this day is the hilula of Rashbi? 
• Why is the day of Rashbi’s passing a time of joy and celebration? 
• What is the connection with Hod of Hod? 
• Why is Rashbi referred to as Shabbos? 
• What were some of the big secrets Rashbi revealed right before his passing? 
• How could Rashbi have passed away while he was teaching Torah? 
• What is the connection between Lag B’Omer and the gal (mound) that Jacob built to serve as a witness of the boundary between him and Laban? 
• How is that consistent with the verse gal einei, which is a state of open revelation, the opposite of Jacob’s gal that separates and conceals? 
• How does Chassidus explain the difference between Choni HaMaagel and Rashbi causing it to rain? 
• Why did Rashbi hide from the Romans, while the Alter Rebbe allowed himself to be arrested? 
• How could Rashbi have caused fire to consume and destroy? 
• Is Lag B’Omer or Yud Tes Kislev the Rosh Hashana of the Inner Torah? 
• What did the Rebbe mean when he said that Rashbi is at the Ohel? 
• Should I write a pan to the Rebbe or to Rashbi, or both?

Chassidus Applied to Lag B’Omer