#shimon bar yochai

[maimonidesnutz]

Cancelling plans is ok. Staying home to cook is ok. Hiding from the Romans in a cave for 12 years is ok. Taking off your clothes and covering yourself in sand to preserve them for Torah study is ok. Smiting people with your eyes for forsaking eternal life is ok. Do what you need to cope.

#jumblr #shimon bar yochai #Shabbat 33b-34a #talmud #lag b'omer

[only-one-place]

#zohar #kabbalah #the book of splendor #Shimon bar Yochai #Rashbi

[johninrags]

Reish - A bridge across forever

Let's explore a story that embodies the idea of Reish as a bridge between the spiritual and the physical. This is the tale of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, also known as Rashbi, a famous 2nd-century Tannaitic sage in ancient Judea, and one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi Akiva.

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the author of the Zohar, the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah, was once forced to hide in a cave with his son, Rabbi Elazar, due to persecutions by the Roman Empire.

According to the Talmud, they remained in this cave for twelve years, sustained only by a carob tree and a spring of water created by divine intervention.

During this time, they devoted themselves entirely to the study and contemplation of the Torah and spiritual matters, completely detached from the physical world. Their bodies were covered in sand up to their necks to preserve their clothing, as they had no change of garments.

When they were finally able to leave the cave, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai demonstrated a profound understanding of both the spiritual and physical worlds. He could perceive the spiritual root causes of physical phenomena, and he used this ability to teach, to heal, and to perform miracles.

This story illustrates the concept of Reish as a bridge between the physical and the spiritual. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his son, living in the cave, were in a sense living in the world of the Reish - they were physically present in the world, but their focus was on the spiritual. When they emerged, they were able to bring the spiritual insights they had gained into the physical world, acting as a bridge between the two realms.

#Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai #rashbi #bible #torah #philosophy #stories #hebrew #love #god #books & libraries #quantum #jesus #alephbet #alef bet

[spacelazarwolf]

so there's a story in the talmud abt shimon bar yochai coming out of his cave (and NOT doing just fine) after 12 years and being so angry that he set shit on fire just by looking at it, and my rabbi says that sometimes he and his (also rabbi) wife will sometimes tell each other they are in a shimon bar yochai mood because they just want to burn down the world.

so i made these shirts for when you just want to burn down the world.

it was just a joke at first but now i legit want one so if anyone wants to order one lmk and we can get a group order lmao. (the more ppl who order the cheaper it will be 👀)

#jewish #jumblr

[leroibobo]

the old synagogue of peki'in, palestine. the current building dates to 1873, a reconstruction of the original which was destroyed in an earthquake 30 years earlier. local tradition holds that the synagogue was built on the site of the bet midrash where 1st-century tannaim joshua ben hananiah and shimon bar yochai taught.

the synagogue isn't usually active today - peki'in is currently designated as a "druze village" - but is cared for by native margalit zinati. the zinati family has lived in peki'in for centuries - according to their tradition, since the time of the second temple.

#palestine #architecture #interior #worship #jewish #mizrahi #palestinian jews #my posts

[unbidden-yidden]

Jewish Song of the Day Archive

Because we all know tumblr's search function and tags are useless! Will update with links as posts are added.

Original post/Ground rules

Olam Chesed Yibaneh - Matt Dubb

The Narrow Bridge - Nefesh Mountain

Yedid Nefesh - Josh Warshawsky

Eliyahu Hanavi - Matt Dubb

Modeh Ani - Tzemed Yeled

Piaseczna Niggun - Derech Achim

Karvah - Eitan Katz feat. Zusha

Tu Bishvat - Batya Levine

Adama ve Shamayim - ???

One Day - Koolulam

Sound of Silence [Yiddish] - Chaim Shlomo Mayesz

Bellida - LALA Tamar

Give Me One Prayer - Shmuel

Orayta - Victoria Hanna

Ani Maamin - Devorah Schwartz

Acheinu - Hadar

Park Ave Niggun - Joey Weisenberg

Am Yisrael Chai - (several :D)

Shir Shel Yom Rishon: Psalm 24 - Gad Elbaz

Shir Shel Yom Sheni: Psalm 48 - Ribi David Kadoch, z"l

Shir Shel Yom Shlishi: Psalm 82 - Tor Marquis

Shir Shel Yom Revii: Psalm 94 - multiple artists & Psalm 95 - Josh Warshawsky

Shir Shel Yom Chamishi: Psalm 81 - A.K.A. Pella

Shir Shel Yom Shishi: Psalm 93 - Josh Warshawsky

Nigun of the Month: Adar I - Nava Tehila

Lo Yisa Goy - Melita Doostan & Octopretzel

Modah Ani - Lahakat Hallel

Arbeter Froyen - Daniel Kahn

Ribono Shel Olam - Simcha Leiner

Tefilat Haderech - Marni Loffman

Avram Avinu - Arleen Ramirez and The Ladino Music Project; Kuando el Rey Nimrod - Farya Faraji (bonus additional version of Avram Avinu)

Miriam Haneviah - Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

Borei Olam - Dovid Gabay

Yigdal - Our Siddur

Old Time Medley - Nefesh Mountain

Halev Sheli - Ishay Ribo

Ein Od Milvado - Avraham Fried & Tomer Adaddi

Dror Yikra - Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

Evening Prayer - Ezra Furman

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai - Matt Dubb

Ivri Anochi - Benny Friedman

Hana Mash Hu Al Yamin - A-WA

Lo Nirga - Avihai Hollender

Yismechu - Batya Levine

V'Shamru Nigun - Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

Omed ba'Shaar - Lahakat Hallel

Milemala - Chaim Shlomo Mayesz

Machar - Mordechai Shapiro

Bashana Haba'ah - Melita and Isaac

Ante Abate - U-da/Yehuda Pardo

We Rise - Batya Levine

Lecha Dodi - Nava Tehila (two versions)

Vurka - Avrum Mordche

Mincha - Mendel Roth

Hashem Melech - Gad Elbaz & Nissim Black

Adon Olam - Kedmah

Guf Venshama - Yaakov Shwekey

Hakol Mishamayim - Mordechai Shapiro

Ana Bekoach - Lahakat Hallel

Ashrei - Pri Eitz Hadar/R' Shefa Gold

Va'ani Ashir Uzecha - Josh Warshawsky

[istodayajewishholiday]

9 May 2023 - 18 Iyyar 5783

Yes, today is Lag BaOmer!

Lag BaOmer (”33rd in the Omer”) celebrates the life of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a Mishnaic sage. The holiday is celebrated with the lighting of bonfires, shooting bows and arrows, and is a common day for weddings. Today is Day 33 of the Counting of the Omer. Tonight: Count 34.

#judaism #jumblr

[aeondeug]

on this note i think rabbi shimon bar yochai should have a giant robot

[girlactionfigure]

Tonight begins a little- known-but-mighty-🔥- holiday called "Lag BaOmer." It's a day of great joy & celebration because:

1. It's the day when a plague that took the lives of 24,000 of Rabbi Akiva's students came to an end. 

2. It is the day of passing of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, author of the Zohar. His wish was that it should be a day of celebration because life on earth is followed by the everlasting life of the soul.

The work of today, and every day, is to see the soul in everything and everyone. 🔥

Rabbi Yisroel Bernath

#Lag Ba Omer #Judaism #Jewish

[magnetothemagnificent]

can i ask something? would making the protagonists jewish fighting against vampires and witches be enough to curb the inherent antisemitism they were created from? or would it be just like putting a band aid in an open wound? (sorry for my english) i hope this is not inapropiate or offensive. thank you for your time

I think it would be putting a band-aid on an open wound if it's done wrong, and unfortunately my faith is very low. However....there are tons of Jewish folktales about figures who dabble in fighting, joining forces with, or creating the supernatural, such as King Saul, King Solomon, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the Maharal of Prague, and so many more. Many Jewish creators make art inspired by this, and I would love to see more. There's also classic Jewish folktales about mystical places and times. One of my favourite stories is that of Reb Shmuel Munkis, an 18th century Chassid who was known for his particular witty way of engaging with Judaism. There's a story about him that I've always loved about how he defeated two witches who had been terrorizing a Jewish town with their dark magic. I would love for more Jews to be given a platform to celebrate their cultural identities and histories, and instead of being forced to confine their stories to a mainstream, non-Jewish, and often antisemitic narrative, be able to share their own adaptations of beloved Jewish stories and folktales.

So instead of gentiles throwing Jews in their stories for the sake of representations, I'd rather that Jewish voices be amplified and given a space.

#judaism #antisemitism

[divinum-pacis]

Mount Heron: Religious Jews gather at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai to celebrate the Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

Photograph: Jalaa Marey/AFP/Getty Images

#religion #judaism #jewish #sukkot #hoshana rabbah #mount heron #middle east #divinum-pacis

[maimonidesnutz]

sometimes a family is a father and a son hiding in a cave for twelve years studying Torah and I think that's beautiful

#jumblr #talmud #Shimon bar Yochai #Torah #judaism

[yhwhrulz]

Today's selected anniversaries: 30th April 2023

1943:

Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of Sicily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat

1963:

A refusal by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the Transport and General Workers' Union to permit the employment of black bus crews led to a bus boycott in Bristol, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Bus_Boycott

1975:

American forces completed a helicopter evacuation (aircraft and evacuees pictured) of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese civilians and others from Saigon, just before North Vietnamese troops captured the city, ending the Vietnam War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon

2021:

A crowd crush during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Israel, killed 45 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Meron_crowd_crush

[33-108]

"Abraxas is nothing else than the Genius of the Sun auerruncatiuus"

Some notes:

In the Zohar (Ber. 60b): "Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Rashbi), tells of a celestial manifestation, which causes the crowing of the roosters; known also in the Talmud, is 'blessed be He who has given the cock intelligence,'"

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“In the rabbinic literature, the cockcrow is used as general marking of time”,

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"the Hebrew gever was used also to mean a 'rooster' in addition to the meaning of 'man, strong man'"

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"The crowing of the cockerel each morning represents the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil."

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Job 38:36 Who gives the ibis wisdom or gives the rooster understanding? (interesting alternative: 'Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind?')

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Gnosticism: "According to Basildes, he says, the Almighty God by the [terrible/powerful/prodigous] name of Abraxas, again according to the Greek letters, the number of yearly course, said to be contained by sun's circle, while other literate heathens call the same number by the name Mithras" [365]

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Islam: "The understanding of the divine spiritual endowment of the rooster within Islam, may be evidenced in the words of Muhammad of that Abrahamic religion in one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam, stating that of "when you hear the crowing of cocks, ask for Allah's Blessings for they have seen an angel"."

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Zoroastrianism: "opposed animal sacrifices but held the rooster as a "symbol of light" and associated the cock with "good against evil" because of his heraldic actions."

#abraxas #gnosticism

[toilingintorah]

Ben Temalyon

by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai

Once, the Roman Empire decreed that the Jews in Israel would no longer be permitted to keep Shabbat or circumcise their children. Rabbi Reuven ben Istrobeli then took a forelock haircut and went to sit among the highest echelons of the Roman government. He asked them, “If one has an enemy, is it better for one’s enemy to be rich or poor?” They replied, “It is certainly better for him to be poor!” He told them, “If so, it would be better for the Jews not to work on Shabbat.” They agreed and abolished the decree against keeping Shabbat.

Rabbi Reuven asked, “If one has an enemy, is it better for the enemy to be healthy and strong or weak?” They answered, “It is certainly better for him to be weak!” He told them, “If so, let the Jews circumcise their newborn boys on the eighth day and they will be weak.” They agreed and abolished the decree against circumcising their children.

Sometime later, they became aware that he was actually a Jew and the Romans reinstated all of their decrees. The Sages of Israel wondered who should go to annul these decrees and finally the decided, “Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai should go as he is accustomed to experiencing miracles!” Rabbi Elazar bar Rabbi Yose accompanied Rabbi Shimon

On their way, a certain demon by the name of Ben Temalyon approached them. The demon asked Rabbi Shimon, “Would you like me to go with you?” Rabbi Shimon cried and said, “Our forefather’s maidservant merited that an angel should come to her three times and I did not merit this even once, as I am only approached by a demon! In any event, let the miracle come, even if only through a demon.” The demon then accompanied the sages. Rabbi Shimon then asked the demon, “What should we do?” The demon replied, “I will enter the Caesar’s daughter to fall ill and you will then be able to nullify the decree.”

Ben Temalyon quickly caused the Caeser’s daughter to become insane. When Rabbi Shimon arrived, he told the Caesar, “I can heal your daughter.” He entered the room and whispered in her ear, “Ben Temalyon, get out! Ben Temalyon, get out!” The demon exited the girl’s body and she was immediately healed. The Caesar said, “Now, request whatever you wish. Enter my vaults and take anything you want.” They then entered the Caesar’s vaults and found the scroll upon which the decrees against the Jewish nation were written. They took it, tore it up, and thus annulled these decrees from upon the Jewish nation.

The lesson we derive from this story is that we can never know where salvation will arrive from. When the State of Israel was established approximately seventy years ago and the heads of the government were not Torah-observant people (and some were actually quite distant from leading a Torah-lifestyle), Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt”l exclaimed, “In any event, let the miracle come. To Rabbi Shimon, Hashem sent Ben Temalyon, and to us, Hashem sent Ben Gurion!”

Lag Ba’Omer : Daily Halacha Based on the Rulings of Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt"l (halachayomit.co.il)

[unbidden-yidden]

Jewish Song of the Day #40: Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai

Comments:

Okay so this one is a little tricky to explain the context of, because it requires a certain baseline of existing knowledge, but I'm gonna try.

So this is a Lag b'Omer song, for reasons I will get to momentarily.

Lag b'Omer is the 33rd day in the counting cycle of the Omer - the 49 days between the second day of Passover (Pesach) and the holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people by Hashem from Mt. Sinai.

Lag b'Omer is celebrated for a couple of reasons:

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who lived in the second century of the Common Era, was the first to publicly teach the mystical dimension of the Torah known as the Kabbalah, and is the author of the classic text of Kabbalah, the Zohar. On the day of his passing, Rabbi Shimon instructed his disciples to mark the date as “the day of my joy.” The chassidic masters explain that the final day of a righteous person’s earthly life marks the point at which all their deeds, teachings and work achieve their culminating perfection and the zenith of their impact upon our lives. So each Lag BaOmer, we celebrate Rabbi Shimon’s life and the revelation of the esoteric soul of Torah. Lag BaOmer also commemorates another joyous event. The Talmud relates that in the weeks between the Jewish holidays of Passover and Shavuot, a plague raged among the disciples of the great sage Rabbi Akiva (teacher of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai), “because they did not act respectfully towards each other.” These weeks are therefore observed as a period of mourning, with various joyous activities proscribed by law and custom. On Lag BaOmer the deaths ceased. Thus, Lag BaOmer also carries the theme of loving and respecting one’s fellow (ahavat Yisrael).

(Source: Chabad - read more about it here)

Because of this, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai is associated with the day, and therefore this song exists.

It is also worth noting that the first 32 days of the Omer (also referred to as the sephira) traditional Jews observe a number of mourning customs, including restrictions on music. I typically observe some level of this, so JSOTD might go on hiatus for that month, or at a minimum, might switch to a capella music only. I might also switch to doing a "Jewish Teaching of the Day" instead. Please let me know what y'all think in the notes. There is also another similar three week period during the summer months of Tammuz and Av where mourning customs are observed. I will likely do the same thing during both.

The Omer doesn’t occur until early May, but I figured I'd give a heads-up while I am talking about this anyway.

Enjoy the song and let me know your thoughts!

#jumblr #jewish music #Jewish Song of the Day