* Welcome to our special LAG B'OMER - ZOHAR edition. This year, Lag b'Omer starts on Thursday night, May 15, and continues until Shabbat takes over. Articles 1-2, 5-7 offer different levels of Kabbalistic insights, mostly based on the Zohar, into this special occasion;
* The seven Weeks of Counting Omer are connected to the Seven Divine Attributes, as are the seven days of each of those weeks. Lag b'Omer is strongly infused with the fifth attribute, HOD, because Lag b'Omer falls on the fifth day of the fifth week, when we enumerate: "Hod of Hod." Appropriately, this is the subject of article #5!
* The little known biblical holy day of Pesach Sheini, which occurs on the 14th of the Jewish month of Iyar (Monday of this week), is the subject of article #3. Hope you saved some matza!
* The 4th article connects to the 4th chapter of Pirkei Avot ("Major Sayings of the Sages"), which we study on the six afternoons between the festivals of Pesach and Shavuot.
* The Torah reading of Emor is the subject of article #6.
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Kabbalah Online Magazine
Week of Emor - Lag b'Omer 5785
ol. 21 No. 31, 13 - 19 Iyar, 5785 / May 11 - 17, 2025
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A note from the staff of Kabbalah Online in Tzefat
Dedication
In memory of Rabbi Arye-Leib ("Leibel") Kaplan, founder 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 27th yahrzeit this Tuesday night-Wednesday, 16 Iyar. |
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| The Zohar | |
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Rashbi and His Circle
— Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai—His Life and Works
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Rashbi: Basic Kabbalah Tenets
— Encompassing the Infinite
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Passover Again!
— G-d gives us an extra month to get ourselves together.
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| Pirkei Avot - Ethics of the Fathers | |
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4:22 Delighting in G-d
— Don't get too invested in This World.
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| Self-Improvement | |
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Submitting to the Flow
— The sefira of hod molds meaningful acceptance
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Triple Holiness
— Kabbalah reveals meditations on holiness in our daily Jewish prayers.
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The Baal Shem Tov’s Lag BaOmer Parade
— The merit of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai protects a community in danger.
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