Ep. 498: How Does Rabbi Shimeon Bar Yochai Help Us Deal with Our Present Challenges?

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:
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What does Lag B’Omer teach us today? 

• How does Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai help us deal with our challenges? 
• Why is this day so special? 
• What is the source that Lag B’Omer is the day of Rashbi’s Hilula? 
• Why can we listen to music and make weddings on Lag B’Omer? 
• Did the Rebbe suggest that we visit the Ohel on this day? 
• Is there an alternative for someone who can’t go to the Ohel? 
• Why don’t we celebrate with a parade on other special days of the year? 
• Why is there a custom to light bonfires on Lag B’Omer? 
• How could the students of Rabbi Akiva defy their teacher’s cardinal rule about loving another? 
• Why did the students of Rabbi Akiva die in an epidemic – does not respecting another warrant the death penalty? 
• Why do we say Lag B’Omer, but don’t say Tu B’Av? 
• Should we be relying on the segulos associated with Lag B’Omer? 
• Segulos don't seem to work for me. What should I do differently? 
• What can we learn from Rashbi living 12 years in a cave? 
• Is there a connection between Lag B’Omer and Moshiach? 
• Is it connected to the Zohar? 
• And if so, how does it relate to Chassidus? 
• Who was Moses de Leon, and what role did he play in disseminating the Zohar? 

• What do we learn from this parsha? 
• What is the connection between this parsha and Lag B’Omer? 
• Why are engraved letters higher than written ones? 

• What is the significance of the month of Iyar and the general time between Pesach and Shavuos? Follow-up 

• If Sinai teaches us the lesson of humility, why was the Torah given on a mountain altogether? 

• Why are we not gathering daily and holding prayer vigils and public reciting of Torah and Tehillim and tzedakah beseeching heaven to free the hostages and end this evil war? 
• Where are our leaders? 

Bechukosei Iyar Sinai Why did the Rebbe not go to Israel? Follow-up 
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