We are compelled to review 101 times to try to understand how this disaster includes all of Am Yisrael.
Rabbi Eyal Riess, Director of the Tzfat Kabbalah Center, had words of comfort that he posted on the organization’s Facebook page.
“Rabbi Elazar son of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai said in the book of Zohar: ‘A cry is stuck in my heart on one side, and joy is stuck in my heart on the other side’. Unfortunately, on the illuminating and happy day of Lag Baomer, this terrible disaster happened, specifically at the grave of Rabbi Shimon which has always been known as a place for celebration. Why? What is the explanation? Why is the pain so great?”
Rabbi Riess cited Psalms:
No signs appear for us; there is no longer any Navi; no one among us knows for how long. Psalms 74:9
“We cannot understand why 45 precious souls were taken from us in the middle of the holy day.”
“According to Kabbalah, the counting on the 33rd day of Omer is expressed in Kabbalah as’Hod in Hod’. ‘Hod’ in the doctrine of Kabbalah symbolizes admission and recognition of the hidden and unattainable aspects of God which cannot be perceived by limited human thought.
Rabbi Riess emphasized that such tragic events come from the unattainable aspect of God’s presence in this world and are, therefore, beyond explanation and understanding. For this reason, they are even more holy.
“We will pray for the safety of the wounded and for the uplifting of the souls of the deceased in the disaster, add light in good deeds, and do everything we can to make sure that such disasters do not happen in the future, anywhere and at any May we bring only good news. Amen.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN185vuE9-E
לא אשחית אם אמצא שם ארבעים וחמישה! 45 מתו באסון במירון. ביטול ייסורי גוג ומגוג מישראל! זוהר אדרא.
From Rav Yaakov Maor
בראשית יח כח: "אוּלַי יַחְסְרוּן חֲמִשִּׁים הַצַּדִּיקִם חֲמִשָּׁה הֲתַשְׁחִית בַּחֲמִשָּׁה אֶת כָּל הָעִיר וַיֹּאמֶר לֹא אַשְׁחִית אִם אֶמְצָא שָׁם אַרְבָּעִים וַחֲמִשָּׁה."
... I won't destroy if I'll find there forty five".
He says that chalila a huge destruction of gog umagog was due to befall Israel, and these forty holy souls were taken instead.
Worth seeing the whole video.
I don’t know who this Rabbi is.
Thank you but I’m not so inclined about this.
I only know him from yt, but like his classes. If you haven't seen the class, you can't really know if you like it or not, but in any case that is the pshat of the torah.
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