Ep. 498: How Does Rabbi Shimeon Bar Yochai Help Us Deal with Our Present Challenges?

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Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:
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What does Lag B’Omer teach us today?

• How does Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai help us deal with our challenges?
• Why is this day so special?
• What is the source that Lag B’Omer is the day of Rashbi’s Hilula?
• Why can we listen to music and make weddings on Lag B’Omer?
• Did the Rebbe suggest that we visit the Ohel on this day?
• Is there an alternative for someone who can’t go to the Ohel?
• Why don’t we celebrate with a parade on other special days of the year?
• Why is there a custom to light bonfires on Lag B’Omer?
• How could the students of Rabbi Akiva defy their teacher’s cardinal rule about loving another?
• Why did the students of Rabbi Akiva die in an epidemic – does not respecting another warrant the death penalty?
• Why do we say Lag B’Omer, but don’t say Tu B’Av?
• Should we be relying on the segulos associated with Lag B’Omer?
• Segulos don't seem to work for me. What should I do differently?
• What can we learn from Rashbi living 12 years in a cave?
• Is there a connection between Lag B’Omer and Moshiach?
• Is it connected to the Zohar?
• And if so, how does it relate to Chassidus?
• Who was Moses de Leon, and what role did he play in disseminating the Zohar?

• What do we learn from this parsha?
• What is the connection between this parsha and Lag B’Omer?
• Why are engraved letters higher than written ones?

• What is the significance of the month of Iyar and the general time between Pesach and Shavuos? Follow-up

• If Sinai teaches us the lesson of humility, why was the Torah given on a mountain altogether?

• Why are we not gathering daily and holding prayer vigils and public reciting of Torah and Tehillim and tzedakah beseeching heaven to free the hostages and end this evil war?
• Where are our leaders?

Bechukosei Iyar Sinai Why did the Rebbe not go to Israel? Follow-up
War with Hamas