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Kabbalah Online Magazine
Week of Emor-Lag B'Omer 5777
Vol. 13 No. 32, 11 - 18 Iyar, 5777 / May 7 - 14, 2017
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A note from the staff of Kabbalah Online in Tzefat
Welcome to our special Lag b'Omer issue:
In many places, Lag B'Omer (Saturday night-Sunday, May 13-14) is 'picnic day', 'bonfire night', 'outing day' and so forth. In Israel it is primarily "Zohar Day," especially here in the Safed area, with 250,000 people making the pilgrimage to nearby Meron and the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the source of the Zohar teachings. Articles #1,4,5,7 examine different aspects of this important occasion. Articles #2-3 are for "Pesach Sheni" (Wednesday) the Torah's most overlooked holiday! (one of them includes a lengthy Zohar quote) This week's reading, Emor, contains the source verses for the mitzvah of Counting the Omer, which we are in the midst of now (see article #6, from the Zohar). Dedication
In loving memory of Rabbi Arye-Leib ("Leibel") Kaplan, a master teacher of the inner dimensions of Torah and head of the Safed-Chabad community from its modern inception with his arrival in 1973 until
his tragic early death twenty-five years later. On the occasion of his 19th yahrzeit this Friday, 16 Iyar. |
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| Lag B'Omer - "Zohar Day" | |
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Rashbi and His Circle
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai—His Life and Works |
| Second Pesach | |
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Never Too Late!
— Repentance is rooted in the heights of the spiritual worlds
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On a Distant Journey
— "The Congregation of Israel is adorned with crowns at Passover time, and does not remove these adornments for thirty days." (Zohar)
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First Haircut
The custom of celebrating a boy’s first haircut has been around for hundreds of years, at least. |
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Lag B'Omer Laws and Customs
— Join the party celebrating the light of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai!
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| Weekly Torah Reading | |
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Exodus of Body and of Soul
— Through waving the barley, animal food, the priests elevate physicality.
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| Mystic Story | |
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Miracle in Meron
— The true story of a miraculous resurrection that occured in the Israeli town of Meron in the last century.
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