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Lag BaOmer 5767 - May 6, 2007
Holidays
Lag BaOmer 2026
Lag BaOmer is a festive day on the Jewish calendar, celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the great sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the end of a plague that raged amongst the disciples of the great sage Rabbi Akiva.
Lag BaOmer is a festive day on the Jewish calendar, celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the great sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the end of a plague that raged amongst the disciples of the great sage Rabbi Akiva.
The Kabbalah of the Bow and Arrow
There comes a point at which the external resources we've come to rely on are suddenly ineffectual, and the only place to turn is inward, to ourselves
There comes a point at which the external resources we've come to rely on are suddenly ineffectual, and the only place to turn is inward, to ourselves
Living
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This won't happen again for another hundred years. I may forget by then. Should I wake up at 2:00 AM to experience this once-in-a-lifetime moment?
This won't happen again for another hundred years. I may forget by then. Should I wake up at 2:00 AM to experience this once-in-a-lifetime moment?
Bonds
She walked out of the room. Halfway down the hallway she stopped and stood motionless as if confronting an invisible wall
She walked out of the room. Halfway down the hallway she stopped and stood motionless as if confronting an invisible wall
Is This Your Ten Million Dollars?
Rabbi declines ten-million-dollar lottery prize: says it’s “against his principles.”
Rabbi declines ten-million-dollar lottery prize: says it’s “against his principles.”
The Jewish Woman
Healing Through Humility
I am full and empty. I lose the love, the joy, the security of an intact life. But I learned the beauty of surrender...
I am full and empty. I lose the love, the joy, the security of an intact life. But I learned the beauty of surrender...
Emotionally Distant Son
My married son is very distant emotionally from me. He very rarely calls, never e-mails me hardly ever invites me over...
My married son is very distant emotionally from me. He very rarely calls, never e-mails me hardly ever invites me over...
Lessons From a Hummingbird
Our society has become increasingly focused on youth and external beauty. We have forgotten the value of wrinkles earned through life experiences...
Our society has become increasingly focused on youth and external beauty. We have forgotten the value of wrinkles earned through life experiences...
Chassidic Thought
Kabbalah Defined
I see a ball moving up and down on the screen--is it really rebounding against the bottom of the screen? Does the menu bar really have drop-down menus hidden behind it? To explain our world without examining its inner depth is as shallow as explaining the workings of a computer by describing the images viewed on its monitor...
I see a ball moving up and down on the screen--is it really rebounding against the bottom of the screen? Does the menu bar really have drop-down menus hidden behind it? To explain our world without examining its inner depth is as shallow as explaining the workings of a computer by describing the images viewed on its monitor...
Sefirah (the Hebrew word for "counting") also means to illuminate and to rarify. The 49-day process of sefirat ha-omer, the counting of the days from Passover to Shavuot, is also the process of refining the 49 traits of one's heart so that they shine with the soul's G-dly light.
— Rabbi DovBer, the Maggid of Mezeritch
Print Magazine
It’s G-d’s world. Everything He gives is good, the sweetest good.
But it is often a good far too great for us to understand. We imagine it is not good, because that’s the only way to make sense of it with our small minds.
Yet the truth is, He gives us all the good we can handle. If we could take more, He would g...
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