From EMAILIM BATORAH
1) Where is Kever רשב"י located?
According to ר' מנחם החברוני (13th century)
רשב"י is buried in Kfar Chananya *(15 km. south of Meron)
2) What day in the עומר was רשב"י niftar?
According to the חיד"א, there is no מקור anywhere
that רשב"י was niftar on Lag Baomer**.
3) Who wrote the Zohar?
According to the יעב"ץ, (The Chasam Sofer seems
to agree) it was R. Moishe d'Leon (not רשב"י)
4) What day did the Talmidei R. Akiva stop dying?
According to the many Poskim, they still died on
Lag Baomer but stopped on the 34th day of the עומר .
5) How many Talmidim of R. Akiva died between
Pesach & Shavuos?
The גמרא (Yevamos 62) says 12,000 pairs of
Talmidim.The מדרש says it was only 300 Talmidim.
6) How did they die?
The גמרא says they all died of a disease called Askera.
According to Harav Hagaon Y. Henkin zt"l and others, the
גמרא uses Askera as a code for getting killed fighting
the Romans.
7) How can you bring Nachas to רשב"י (guaranteed)?
The שואל ומשיב 5 - 39 writes " if you distribute the money
to עניי ארץ ישראל instead of spending it to go to his
Kever etc., he guarantees רשב"י will have much more
Nachas Ruach.
8) Why do we celebrate Lag Baomer with קצת שמחה?
According to the Chasam Sofer the קצת שמחה has nothing
to do with רשב"י but because it's the Sefirah of הוד שבהוד***
and to commemorate the first day the מן came down in
the מדבר.
9) Why you should not celebrate ל"ג בעומר with
dancing & music in חוץ לארץ ?
According to the מנחת אלעזר ח"ד :ס because it is only a
Minhag Eretz Yisroel Celebrating in Chutz Laaretz is
onsidered strange & haughty כזרות יחשב וכיוהרא
10) Why is it forbidden to dance in front of a fire?
The תוספתא (Shabbos 7:1) says clapping hands or
dancing in front of a fire is אסור because of דרכי אמורי.
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Interesting you fail to mention thr pri etz chaim by r chaim vital, primary disciple of holy arizal...but it doesnt support your agenda, so perhaps not so interesting....
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ReplyDeleteI don't have any agenda on this topic ...
far greater gedoilim than I have questioned the authorship of the Zohar, as no early Rishon ever saw it.... ..also if you are familiar with the Zohar...the Zohar many times quotes Tanaim that weren't born until way after R' Shimon ben Yochai had passed on ...
so if you will tell me that maybe someone added that later on ..than that puts a doubt on the entire Zohar, since now I don't know if the other sayings of the Zohar weren't added on..
That doesn't mean that the Kabalistic concepts weren't there before ..of course they were ...
all we are questioning is who the author of the Zohar is? The Yaavitz actually is convinced that it wasn't R' Shimon and the Chasm Sofer seems to agree..
Also ..Benjamin of Tudela who mentions in his diary his visit to Meron mentions that this is the burial site of Hillel and Shammai and "20 of their talmidim" without mentioning "R' Shimon ben Yochai at all?
An Analysis of the Authenticity of the Zohar (2005), p. 39, with "Rav E" and "Rav G" later identified by the author as Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler and Rabbi Gedaliah Nadel, respectively (Rabbi Dr. Marc Shapiro in Milin Havivin Volume 5 [2011], Is there an obligation to believe that Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai wrote the Zohar?, p. יב [PDF page 133]):
ReplyDelete"I approached Rav A [Aryeh Carmell] with some of the questions on the Zohar, and he responded to me - 'and what about nikud? Nikud is also mentioned in the Zohar despite the fact that it [is] from Geonic times!' he said.
I later found this comment in the Mitpachas Seforim. I would just add that not only is nikud mentioned, but only the Tiberian Nikkud - the norm in Europe of the middle ages - is mentioned and not the Yerushalmi nikud or the Babylonian one — which was used then in the Middle East, and is still used by Yemenites today.
Also the Taamay Hamikrah - the trop - are referred to in the Zohar - only by their Sefardi Names.
Rav A told me a remarkable piece of testimony:
'My rebbe (this is how he generally refers to Rav E [Elijah Dessler]) accepted the possibility that the Zohar was written sometime in the 13th century.'"
"Rav G [Gedaliah Nadel] told me that he was still unsure as to the origin and status of the Zohar, but told me it was my absolute right to draw any conclusions I saw fit regarding both the Zohar and the Ari."
The Hasidim have made a new religion.
ReplyDeleteThey made Meron a new Jerusalem, R"L, similar to what is recorded in Nevi'im when Yerovam had the people be oleh regel to Dan instead of Yerushalayim.
The Chasam Sofer already warned against this close to two hundred years ago.
The Chasidim trot out the Chasam Sofer zy"a when it suits them, but ignore him when they don't like what he says, like his words against going to Meron on Lag Baomer.