JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Hundreds of thousands of people attended the traditional Lag Ba’Omer lightings Monday night, as police and ushers carefully monitored the crowds and regulated the various different locations where lightings were taking place.
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One of the main events during the night of Lag Ba’Omer was the lighting with R’Elimelech Biderman, who energized the crowds with his rousing speech, singing and dancing. Rav Biderman, a scion of the Lelov dynasty and an eighth generation resident of the land of Israel, has remarkable charisma. When he decided last year in the wake of the Meron tragedy to hold the lighting in Beit Shemesh, 20,000 people gathered to rejoice with him.
This year Rav Meilech, as he is affectionately known, returned to Meron, which The lighting was supposed to take place by about 3:30 AM but due to the extensive rejoicing and the fact that police had delayed other public transport to Meron in the wake of the Gaza operation, the actual lighting took place at 5:15 AM, just prior to the Vatikin prayers.
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מירון "כמו פעם": עוצמה אדירה של אלפי חוגגים בהדלקה של רבי אלימלך בידרמן במתחם ההילולא במירון pic.twitter.com/WthtSgFp71
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Disrespectful headline
I’m not sure ” rocking” is the right term here
The picture is from 5 years ago
If Moshe DeLeon had known, while his Yeshiva M’kibilim was writing the Zohar, that he would be selling it as a Sefer written by RASHB”Y, he would never have put in certain paragraphs that gave away the truth.
For instance, “In today’s days we no longer have a Bas Kol”.
And “the moon doesn’t have its own light it’s just a reflection from the sun”. That is something that was not known to the Chachmei Hatalmud and Rishonim until the time of the Ramban.(See Pesochim 94:, that at night the sun travels from west to east hidden above a non-transparent sky, while the moon is shining in its full brightness, see Rashi there and Rashi Rosh Hashana 24. line 12)
Too bad no women were allowed in to be inspired and rejoice…