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Lamplighter — Emor 5783

Выпуск: Lamplighter — Emor 5783. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Lamplighter Issue 1604 CHABAD HOUSE Dedicated to the revered leader of 14 Iyar 5783 Pesach Sheni OF CAULFIELD 770 world Jewry The Lubavitcher Rebbe 5 May 2023 Parshas EMOR Lag B’Omer LIVING WITH THE The Bow and Arrow on Lag B’Omer TIMES Yehuda Shurpin There is a Jewish custom in some communities that on the 33rd day of the Omer count, known as Lag BaOmer, children go out into the fields and play with bows and arrows. The Lubavitcher Rebbe points out that there must be a more positive reason for this and assess his thoughts, working them over in his custom as well, because the above reason draws attention to the fact that we unfortunately mind until he comes to a satisfactory conclusion. The Zohar explain that at present is going on in someone else's mind; if our thoughts the rainbow appears in dull colours since it is only designed as a reminder that there shall be are not expressed verbally, no one else can derive no return of the flood as there was in the days of Noah. Since Lag BaOmer marks the passing of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who began revealing In accordance with the commandment "And the inner dimensions and secrets of the Torah, it is the custom to play with the bow, symbolising the especially bright (rain)bow that will appear to herald the final redemption.6 you shall love your fellow as yourself," a Jew is In addition to the passing of Rabbi Shimon, Lag BaOmer also marks the day that the obligated to share whatever good he possesses students of Rabbi Akiva stopped dying. Good thoughts, thoughts that have the holidays of Passover and Shavuot, a plague raged among the disciples of the great sage meaning and significance, are in this category, for Rabbi Akiva (teacher of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai) “because they did not act respectfully ex p r e s s i n g t h e m c a n b r i n g e n j oy m e n t , toward each other.” These weeks are therefore observed as a period of mourning. Emor, by contrast, implies a If, on the other hand, it's all about the person and his ego, and what he was able to grasp softer kind of speech, and a more pleasant way of with his own intellect, then he will surely get upset if someone has a different understanding communicating. order to have a positive influence on others we Thus, the custom is for specifically

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Lamplighter

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1 мая 2023 г.

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