Understanding Lag Baomer

Midwesterner, the Genata in Brachos says that a Tzaddik can’t become a Rasha. Then, the Gemara asks your question from Yochanan Cohen Gadol and ends up saying that it is a Machlokes whether it is the same person.

In Yoma 38 the Gemara says that once most of a person’s life went by without an Aveira he won’t go bad. There, the Gemara doesn’t ask anything. I found the Yismach Moshe, referenced in Yoma on Sefaria. The Yismach Moshe is in Re’eh.

רבי אליעזר בנו של ר’ יוסי הגלילי אומר מי לחשוך כו’. נ”ל דהנה במקום אחר אמרו חז”ל (ברכות כ”ט.) אל תאמין בעצמך עד יום מותך, שהרי יוחנן כהן גדול שימש בכהונה גדולה שמונים שנה ולבסוף נעשה צדוקי, אלמא דהשי”ת אין מוחה ואין מונע להבחירה בשום פעם. ובמקום אחר דרשו על פסוק (שמואל א’ ב ט) רגלי חסידיו ישמור, כיון שעברו רוב שנותיו של אדם ולא חטא, שוב לא יחטא (יומא דף ל”ח:). והדברים נראין כסותרין את עצמן. וי”ל דממכשול שוגג, השי”ת שומרו דחטא היינו שוגג, אבל אם רוצה להרשיע במזיד, השי”ת אינו מבטל הבחירה.

He also answers that Hashem would protect him from a regular Aveira, but if he deviates in Hashkafa then he can still go sour. Similar to a תוהה על הראשונות who loses his earlier merit.

in chabad chassidus its explained that lag beomer being the yom hilulah of rashbi, on that day he taught many things he never taught before that day, (because) 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.
penimius hatorah is a revelation of penemius atik – simple put, its a revelation of hashem’s light – or ein sof, (niglah is the torah the way it comes down to this world) when that light is revealed there are many supernatural things, thats why rashbi did wonders simply by saying torah (unlike other tanaim needed to daven) thats why on such a day, the rebbes – the neshama of rashbi and teachers of his torah – were able to give brachos for children in a sprcial way. see more about this in all the maamarim of lag beomer

Gadol, if you’re here to spew anti kabalah, haskalah dribble, at least learn the meaning of the term “hilulah.” Hint – it is not “birthday.”

Youre only proving that maskilim are woefully uneducated and merely parrot what they read from other maskilim, who themselves parrot from others.

By “woefully uneducated” i was referring not to secular education, but to chinuch. The fact that your mind goes straight to college when hearing the word “education” is exactly the issue here.

It’s not “misspeaking,” it’s a conclusion you drew from seeinf people celebrating and not even bothering to get THEIR view of what they’re happy about. You rather went straight to the anti Torah blogs, which make you feel good about the life choices you’ve made.

There is no apparent difference between the term ‘Chinuch’ and ‘Education’ besides origin. I’m unclear as to your meaning here.

Ah yes, I perfectly fit this frankly bad projection of some alien observer who interprets every part of frum culture through the lens of these supposed anti-torah blogs. I’m simultaneously justifying my anti-torah life choices, while never knowing the torah approach in the first place.

Perhaps instead of these bad attempts at playing Holmes, we grant the more likely possibility that I misspoke exactly as I claimed happened. You should just know to aid you in these future virtual detective works, that whatever “anti-torah blogs” you are referring to, they likely don’t have much of a market for those who aren’t initially acquainted with the concepts they are dismantling.

Talmidim of rav shlomo zalman aurbach write that once he and kapach were at a wedding, where kapach was supposed to be a witness, and rav shlomo zalman, the mesader kidushin. Knowing that kapach was pasul l’aidus, but not wanting to cause a scene or offend him needlessly, he said “it’s not befitting your kovod for me to be mesader and you a witness… let’s change places,” since there is no requirement that a mesader kidushin be…. anything.

And yes, as the sonei Torah are quick to point out, rav ovadia yosef writes that kapach is not an apikores. He also had to deal with him on a regular basis. He couldn’t refuse to answer, either. So he wrote something which was dan lekaf zchus; what is he to do if he finds things in kabalah which to him sound like avodah zara? It’s not his fault.

Of course, it’s very much his fault, because he wasn’t living under a rock. He knew full well how many gedolei yisroel – all of them, including in Yemen, had accepted kabalah. Rav ovadia didn’t say that denying them would be acceptable. He found a very expedient way to avoid a very messy machlokes with a person who had zero regard for talmidei chachamim, which would have jeopardized his mission of spreading Torah among a very neglected part of klal yisroel.

@avira: interesting r’shlomo zalman didint want to offend someone he considered an apikores? so instead he was “chonef” him??
ואמרו רבותינו על עניין אגריפס שהיה קורא בתורה, וכשהגיע לפסוק זה (דברים יז טו): “לא תוכל לתת עליך איש נכרי”, זלגו עיניו דמעות, ואמרו לו “אחינו אתה”, (סוטה מא.): “באותה שעה נתחייבו שונאיהם של ישראל כליה, שחינפו לו לאגריפס”.
see at length שערי תשובה – כת החנפים

>>>It’s the same mindset that leads to any sort of conspiratorial thinking.

Quite an ironic comment coming from someone like yourself

People like yourself who believe that the alleged then prevalent Greek thinking had an influence on Birchas Hasacher or that Lag Baomar was most likely not Rashbi’s birthday as this tradition seems to be based on nothing more than a typo are openly believing in and promoting conspiracy theories…

You seem to be under a misapprehension of what constitutes a conspiracy theory. Objectively assessing the evidence and exploring the historical record utilizing the scientific method wouldn’t fit any definition of one. However, believing that something is true because the people in your social group believe it’s true, while ignoring the evidence that clearly displaces the justification for that belief, would be a little closer to one.

True. To be fair none of these things would be technically conspiracies which would require the belief that some people secretly conspired to have some version of something be believed.
So we are rather just discussing the historical facts and which case is more likely. It’s hard for many to assess this case objectively because they enter into this discussion with underlying beliefs about the world. If the (extremely malleable during youth) human brain is led to believe something at a young age, most of the time no amount of evidence will lead them to realize it’s in fact incorrect. There are other facts that influence the likelihood; For example if there is a large amount of people that he lives with that also share that belief, that’ll decrease the odds of his knowledge being updated. Or if he is someone who has a more rational/objective mind and one who is less adept at remaining at his spot on the social ladder these factors all can affect it.
I think it is quite clear that if one comes at this from a purely objective standpoint without the underlying factors and simply assesses the evidence on both sides (or on one side), he shall come to the answer.
This phenomena is quite visible with the thousands of silly ideas/beliefs that populate the planet. To everyone else their beliefs are quite clearly silly, but to anyone raised believing them they have a very small chance of breaking their minds free.