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The Mystery of Lag B'omer
Jewish World Review ^
| 5/23/'08
| Rabbi Pinchas Stolper
Posted on 05/23/2008 8:06:42 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
Thirty-three days following the first day of Passover, Jews celebrate a "minor" holiday called Lag B'Omer, the thirty-third day of the Omer. It is an oasis of joy in the midst of the sad Sefirah period that passes almost unnoticed by most contemporary Jews. Yet it contains historic lessons of such gravity that our generation must attempt to unravel its mystery. We may well discover that our own fate is wrapped in the crevices of its secrets.
The seven weeks between Passover and Shavuos are the days of the "Counting of the Omer," the harvest festivities which were observed in the Land of Israel when the Temple stood on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. This fifty-day period should have been a time of joyful anticipation. After experiencing the Exodus from Egypt on Pesach, Jews literally "counts the days" until they can relive Mattan Torah the Revelation of Torah at Mount Sinai which took place on Shavuos, exactly fifty days after the Exodus.
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TOPICS: Apologetics; Current Events; History; Judaism
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; judaism; lagbaomer; messiah; spirituality
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To: SJackson
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posted on
05/12/2009 3:46:07 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
( . . . uqera'tem deror ba'aretz lekhol-yosheveyha . . .)
To: Wuli
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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posted on
05/12/2009 3:47:09 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
( . . . uqera'tem deror ba'aretz lekhol-yosheveyha . . .)
To: Zionist Conspirator
Nope. There was a final revolt in 617. Also look up David al Roy and Queen Kahanna.
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posted on
05/12/2009 4:55:10 PM PDT
by
rmlew
( The SAVE and GIVE acts are institutioning Corvee. Where's the outtrage!)
To: rmlew
Nope. There was a final revolt in 617. Also look up David al Roy and Queen Kahanna.There were Polynesians involved???
Just kidding! Thanks for the info.
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posted on
05/12/2009 7:19:25 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
( . . . uqera'tem deror ba'aretz lekhol-yosheveyha . . .)
To: Alouette; TorahTrueJew; Yomin Postelnik; hlmencken3; ChicagoHebrew; Yehuda; dervish; rmlew; ...
Tonight and tomorrow is La”G Ba`Omer 5770. Hope this article is still available.
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posted on
05/01/2010 6:37:18 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
( . . . Uqera'tem deror ba'aretz, lekhol yosheveyha . . .)
To: Wuli
“Love your neighbor as yourself” is in Leviticus (Leviticus 19:18). It wasn’t a teaching unique to Hillel, Akiva or Jesus. It’s basic Jewish law.
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posted on
05/01/2010 6:59:29 PM PDT
by
ChicagoHebrew
(Hell exists, it is real. It's a quiet green meadow populated entirely by Arab goat herders.)
To: All
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posted on
04/28/2013 7:59:23 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
To: hlmencken3; rmlew; Nachum; dervish; Yehuda; Ancesthntr; TorahTrueJew; Yomin Postelnik; ...
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posted on
04/28/2013 8:00:42 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
To: Zionist Conspirator
Thx Z.C.!
Never seen this.
It was before I even joined F.R.! Lols
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04/28/2013 8:29:49 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: hlmencken3; rmlew; Nachum; dervish; Yehuda; Ancesthntr; TorahTrueJew; Yomin Postelnik; ...
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posted on
05/16/2014 1:46:00 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
Wow! Answers a few questions I have had about Lag B’Omer.
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posted on
05/16/2014 2:11:11 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: hlmencken3; rmlew; Nachum; dervish; Yehuda; Ancesthntr; TorahTrueJew; Yomin Postelnik; ...
Annual (5775) La”G Ba`Omer ping.
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posted on
05/06/2015 9:30:09 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
I will celebrate the holiday by getting a hair cut!
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posted on
05/06/2015 9:34:38 AM PDT
by
Nachum
(Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
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posted on
05/06/2015 9:53:27 AM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Zionist Conspirator
As always ZC, very interesting post.
Thank you.
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posted on
05/06/2015 6:13:14 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: hlmencken3; rmlew; Nachum; dervish; Yehuda; Ancesthntr; TorahTrueJew; Yomin Postelnik; ...
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posted on
05/25/2016 5:49:33 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(HaShem first! Anything else is idolatry, a violation of the very first commandment!)
To: Admin Moderator; All
The title should of course read "mystery," not "myster."
Can that be corrected?
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posted on
05/25/2016 5:51:10 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(HaShem first! Anything else is idolatry, a violation of the very first commandment!)
To: Zionist Conspirator
Serious mistakes in this piece. The claim that there was no Jewish army until the 20th century is laughable
It would be 2,000 years before there would be a Jewish fighting force. In the great and tragic defeat, not only were between 250,000-600,000 Jews killed, but the Romans were encouraged, once and for all, to uproot the Jewish religion and the Jewish People, to bring an end to their revolutionary hopes and their redemptive dreams.
During the last Persian-Byzantine war of 602-628, Nehemiah ben Hushiel, supposedly the son of the Jewish Exilarch /Reish Galuta in Babylon, led 20,000 Persian Jews into Byzantine occupied Israel. In 614, after Byzantine Jews revolted, Jerusalem was liberated and under nominal Jewish control until 617, when the Persians betrayed the Jews in Israel in a vain effort to get Christian support.
Other instances included the Berber queen Kahina, who led Berbers and Berber Jews in a fight against Islamic invasion.
The failed messianic claimaint David Al Roy comes to mind. And then there were the Khazar nobles who converted to Judaism and married Jews.
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posted on
05/25/2016 7:19:09 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: rmlew
Thanks rmlew.
The strength of the article is its focus on the Bar Kokhba' era and how it ties in to the gradual change from a landed warrior nation to a nation of exiled scholars, and how this in turn ties in to the messianic redemption.
I defer to you on these other historical matters.
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posted on
05/25/2016 8:41:19 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(HaShem first! Anything else is idolatry, a violation of the very first commandment!)
To: Admin Moderator
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posted on
05/25/2016 8:41:58 PM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(HaShem first! Anything else is idolatry, a violation of the very first commandment!)
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