The Significance of Lag BaOmer - The Esteemed Rabbi Moshe Tzanani shlit"a

The article was written on the eve of Lag BaOmer 5778

"Lag BaOmer, the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai is like a wedding in the heavens, and his holy neshamah (soul) spreads throughout the world. We ascend to Meron to partake in this immense simcha (joy) and to prostrate on his holy resting place to merit receiving some impregnation from the neshamah of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. So that we too can awaken from our slumber. This day is very conducive for this."

"For Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai awakens all those who are asleep from their slumber, as his name testifies: "Awake and holy one descended from heaven". He was the bow of the covenant and through this he merited to be a flame of fire for Hashem, which is the matter of the lighting. The fire of the lighting symbolizes the fire that surrounded them as they studied the secrets of the Torah, due to the great attachment that Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his students had to Hashem, as Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said, "All my days I am bound in one bond with Hashem."

"And we must ask on this holy and awesome day that we too, who are cold as ice, merit to receive from this fire, and also merit to yearn for Hashem. And through this we will merit, as Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said before his passing, "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine, and his desire is upon me.""

And by this merit, we will merit a complete redemption speedily in our days, Amen.