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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Rabbi and Doctor of Cybernetics Michael Laitman, who is also a spiritual leader and above all one of the world’s most renowned kabbalists. He is the founder of the Bnei Baruch Institute and ARI, has written 30 books and has been interviewed by Larry King, among other things. ....
Outrage is mounting at New York Times coverage of the recent Israel-Gaza war, with prominent Israeli and American Jewish leaders. The first person we know of who made the connection between Meron and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai was a 12th-century Jewish traveler by the name of Jacob ben Netanel HaCohen, who wrote a travel diary of his visit to the Holy Land. He mentions Rashbi’s tomb in Meron, and adds that his son Rabbi Eleazar is also buried there. Oddly enough, various other medieval pilgrims who authored travelogues and visited Meron such as Benjamin of Tudela and Petachia of Regensburg neither mention the tomb of Rashbi, nor that of his son which, to be blunt, is a jarring omission. ....
Get email notification for articles from Naama Riba Follow May. 2, 2021 4:31 PM Photographer Yehoshua Shuka Glotman first attended the annual hillula for Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai (Rashbi) in 1983. After almost 40 years of attending the Lag Ba’omer celebration, he gathered the photos together for a book that was published last month – prior to the tragedy overnight Thursday that left at least 45 people dead at this year’s event on Mount Meron. “The intensity of the experience was overwhelming and left a strong impression on me,” he writes in the text accompanying his book about the event. “To me, the masses celebrating enthusiastically under the open sky in the heart of the Galilee landscape resembled the camp of the Children of Israel in the desert. The colorful and vibrant sight I witnessed was dizzying; order and chaos intermingled. I was really intrigued by it,” he states. The last Lag Ba’omer event he attended at the tomb of the second-century r ....
I was at the Kikar (now called Rabin Square) with my family in November 1995, the last night of the national mourning shiva for Yitzhak Rabin z”l. We first saw it on TV and decided to be personally part of Israel’s equivalent of the Kennedy assassination and spontaneously drove to Tel Aviv, with our boys, parked and walked to the Kikar. At the end of Leah Rabin z”l’s speech, we felt a real messianic moment of unity and respect for each other, as Aviv Gefen sang and the rest of us in the huge crowd (tens of thousands) sadly singing together Livkot Lecha לבכות לך (cry of you – Yesh Li Haverim I have Friends! ....
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, As we approach Lag Ba’omer, a time of national celebration on the Yahrzeit of Rebi Shimon Bar Yochai the author of the Zohar, it would be worthwhile revisiting the section of the Talmud that forms the backdrop to deepen our appreciation of Rashbi and Lag Ba’omer. ....