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This coming Mozzaei Shabbat and Sunday we are celebrating the holiday of Lag BaOmer which is the 33rd day after Pessach. All over Israel huge fires will be lit and many religious Jews are dancing around them. Of course, the best place to be is the northern town of Meron where Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai is buried. Hundreds of thousands of people will be there.
Last Shabbat I heard a great teaching from Rabbi Mordechai Machlis as well as from Rabbi Meir Weiner:
Whoever is the same person on Lag BaOmer he had been on Pessach has missed the point of the Sefirat HaOmer (the counting of the Omer). While counting the Omer, we should also spiritually grow and change in order to get ready for receiving the Torah on Shavuot.
Monday, April 30, 2007
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