Netiv - Virtual Learning For Noahides
Aug 17, 2026 · 51 min · 12 segments
Lag\_BaOmer\_Explained\_\_Rabbi\_Shimon\_Bar\_Yochai\_Divine\_Providence\_\_Radical\_Faith
Rabbi WolbeHost
He was a student of Rabbi Akiva, and he passed on the 33rd day of the Omer, on Lark Bar Omer.
Why would we celebrate? Why would there be any degree of celebration, of happiness? a minor festival, if you will, on the day that someone that we cherished passed.
And the answer is that when a great sage, a great tzaddik, a righteous person passes, they're not dying.
They're in this world, where their soul was being housed by a body, and now they're ascending to heaven where their soul is going to be untethered, unencumbered, unbridled by the existence of a body.
So it's a day of the promotion of Rabbi Shimon, and therefore we have some minor celebration.
I like to call it pyromaniac paradise because there is a longstanding tradition to make bonfires, large bonfires to celebrate this day.
In the United States, we have all this code and the fire department, they have their regulations.
If you go to Israel on this day, on every street, on every street corner, everywhere, there are bonfires.
He was a student of Rabbi Akiva, and he passed on the 33rd day of the Omer, on Lark Bar Omer.
Why would we celebrate? Why would there be any degree of celebration, of happiness? a minor festival, if you will, on the day that someone that we cherished passed.
And the answer is that when a great sage, a great tzaddik, a righteous person passes, they're not dying.
They're in this world, where their soul was being housed by a body, and now they're ascending to heaven where their soul is going to be untethered, unencumbered, unbridled by the existence of a body.
So it's a day of the promotion of Rabbi Shimon, and therefore we have some minor celebration.
I like to call it pyromaniac paradise because there is a longstanding tradition to make bonfires, large bonfires to celebrate this day.
In the United States, we have all this code and the fire department, they have their regulations.
If you go to Israel on this day, on every street, on every street corner, everywhere, there are bonfires.
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