Lag BaOmer: Bnei Yissaschar on the Minhagim

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shimon a simcha, when Moshe Rabbeinu's yahrtzeit is a sad day? Learning from the sefer, we see that Lag B'Omer begins the revelation of the hidden light of the Torah, which Rabbi Shimon revealed. A tzaddik's neshama going up is like a chasuna. The fires and the bow and arrow each point to that hidden light, and Lag B'Omer is also a day of bitachon and tefillah.

Key points

• The last seventeen days of Sefira, gematria tov, begin revealing the hidden light of the Torah.
• A tzaddik's neshama returning to Shamayim is a simcha, like a chassan and kallah reuniting.
• Rabbi Shimon revealed the secrets of the Torah, so his yahrtzeit is kept as a simcha.
• The Lag B'Omer fire honors the hidden Torah and Rabbi Shimon's neshama, a flame reaching upward.
• The bow recalls that no rainbow appeared in Rabbi Shimon's time, and is a tefillah for Moshiach.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Lev and tov in Sefira
2. 7:06Why Rabbi Shimon's yahrtzeit is a simcha
3. 11:44Was Rabbi Shimon born on Lag B'Omer
4. 14:00Revealing the Zohar's secrets that day
5. 16:28Reasons for the Lag B'Omer fires
6. 22:03The simcha in Meron
7. 30:23The minhag of bow and arrow
8. 36:42The sun waiting for Rabbi Shimon
9. 41:06A hidden name of Hashem and bitachon

Topics

• Lag B'Omer
• Sefiras HaOmer
• Zohar
• Bitachon