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By expressing our regards for others, we help unite the Creation.
On
Lag B'Omer, we celebrate the end of the
plague that smote 24,000 (!) students of the great Talmudic sage,
Rabbi Akiva. Each a respected
Torah scholar, they were punished for
not respecting one another sufficiently.
After their passing, Rabbi Akiva had new students, though fewer. These men put in the extra effort to honor each other and thereby succeeded in rising to much higher heights. |
The lovesickness they felt approaching Sinai is comparable to a bride counting the days until she is united with her groom.
The Zohar describes the emotional and spiritual longing the nation felt as it approached the giving of the Torah as comparable to that of a bride counting the days until she is united with her groom.
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By Yitzchak Schwartz
Going out of Egypt occurred in 50 different units of redemption. Thus the going out of Egypt is mentioned in the Torah exactly 50 times.
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Related Topics
- Sefirat HaOmer period (132)
- Kabbalah (1207)
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