Lag BaOmer

Lag Ba’Omer: Two different approaches to hostile regimes: R’ Shimon vs. R’ Yehudah

Throughout Jewish History, גְּדוֹלֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל followed the policy of R Yehudah, not R Shimon, though the Jewish People in its folk-wisdom came to celebrate the frank expressions of R Shimon bar Yochai.…