Lag BaOmer: Hod and Nitzchuni Banai

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why do Pesach Sheni and Lag BaOmer both fall in the week of hod? Hod shares its root with moadim, to admit. On Pesach Sheni Hashem agreed with the Yidden and created a new parsha, and on Lag BaOmer Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai revealed hidden secrets of the Torah. The simcha of Lag BaOmer is that no matter how far a Yid falls, he can still come back.

Key points

• The Gemara has Hashem smiling at the refusal of the bas kol, saying Nitzchuni banai, my children won.
• For the tamei Yidden who longed to bring the Pesach, Hashem created a parsha that did not exist.
• Had Acher answered his bas kol with lo bashamayim hi, Hashem would have said Nitzchuni banai.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Sefiras and the weeks of Sefira
2. 5:42The story of the tanur shel achnai
3. 10:15Nitzchuni banai as the midah of hod
4. 12:04Hashem not smiling since the Churban
5. 12:58The Gemara in Brachos on hod
6. 15:53Pesach Sheni and the new parsha
7. 20:34Lag BaOmer and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
8. 23:16Acher and the bas kol

Topics

• Pesach Sheni
• Lag BaOmer
• Sefiras HaOmer
• Tanur Shel Achnai