Weapons of love: Lag BaOmer 101

Weapons of love: Lag BaOmer 101

Lag BaOmer is a festive day on the Jewish calendar. This year, it starts the night of May 15 through May 16. Lag BaOmer celebrates the anniversary of the passing of the great sage and mystic Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. Also known as the Rashbi (an acronym for his name), he was the author of the Zohar, a foundational work of the Kabbalah which is the basis for Chassidus. He requested that the day of his passing be celebrated and not mourned. It also…

Rabbi Shmuel Abramovsky, head of the Avreich Kollel in Petah Tikva, in a special lesson on the afterlife of martyrs - in the teachings of Rabbi Shimon, a wonderful lesson for Lag BaOmer | The lesson is given every Wednesday at the "Monkatsch" synagogue in Petah Tikva • Watch the full lesson (Haredi)