{"id":45692,"date":"2018-05-03T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T12:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=45692"},"modified":"2018-05-03T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T12:10:14","slug":"rebbe-akiva-bar-kochva-rashbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/rebbe-akiva-bar-kochva-rashbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lag B&#8217;Omer at the Fire: Rebbe Akiva&#8217;s Frustrated Messianic Hopes for Bar Kochva Can Still be Realized&#8230;Through RASHBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does learning the Zohar cause us to merit the final redemption? Why does the gemara say the world was desolate after Rebbi Akiva&#8217;s students died &#8211; they weren&#8217;t the only talmidei chachamim alive at the time? Why did they die between Pesach and Shavuot? Why do we celebrate when they stopped dying &#8211; they stopped dying because there were all gone!?!<\/p>\n<p>The connection between the 24,000 who died in the plague resulting from \u05d1\u05e2\u05dc \u05e4\u05e2\u05d5\u05e8 in \u05e4\u05e8\u05e9\u05ea \u05d1\u05dc\u05e7 and the 24,000 students of Rebbi Akiva.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/r-glatstein-lag-baomer-bar-kochva.pdf\">Download the mekorot here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shiur provided courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.torahanytime.com\/\"><strong>Torah Anytime<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-post-45692 wp-image-36223 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/torah\/files\/TorahAnyTimeLogo-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"Torah Anytime Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does learning the Zohar cause us to merit the final redemption? 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Why do we celebrate when they stopped dying &#8211; they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133454,"featured_media":45695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lag-baomer","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>R&#039; Akiva&#039;s Messianic Hopes for Bar Kochva can be Realized via Rashbi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How does learning Zohar cause us to merit the final redemption? Why was the world desolate after Rebbi Akiva&#039;s students died - they weren&#039;t the only talmidei chachamim? 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