[Avodah] Yom ha'atma'us etc.

[Richard Wolpoe]

Well it IS Israel Independence day but it is NOT the 5th of Iyyar.   If the
5th of Iyyar has qedusha, then does it make sense to say Hallel 2 days
earlier?

My position has pretty much always been the the 5th of Iiyar is like lag
ba'omer. IOW  a kind of a middle-of-the-road position between full Purim
like frivolity and Tachanun-bearing Sefira suffering.   Now I have
re-examined my Centrist postion and I find that it now makes sense to me on
another level...

The Mourning of Talmidei R. Akiva is related to the uprsiningn against Rome
which extinguished the last embers of the 2nd Commonwealth. As such Sefira
connotes an almost 9 Av Hurban  mindset approaching the loss of a major
chunk of the remnants of the hurban of 70 CE... In a sense efira is a hurban
achar hurban,[like bishul achar bishul] not a full-fleged Hurban, but a mini
one.

Now 5 Iyyar and 28 Iyyar [Yom yerushalayyim] are not complete ge'ulos [like
Purim] but in a sense we are witnessing over time a rolling back of the
damage done in 70/135 CE. In the span of about 70 years [roughly 66  to
135]  things went downhill in stages, with 9 Av being a  major watershed
point. And - Lag ba'omer was the one bright spot in the 132-135 era, a break
within that plague.

5 Iyyar & 28 Iyyar  represent two NEW "breaks" given to us by HKBH.  Not
complete ge'ulah but a slight undoing [step by step, stage by stage] of the
earlier events. It therefore makes sense to me to think of them as much more
closely analogous to 33 omer.  Two days representing a roll back of the
damage.

AISI since only the complete G'eulah will merit full Hallel,and so therefore
it is premature to do so NOW but it IS appropriate to pause from our Sefirah
mourning to add 2 "modern" lag Ba'omer-like days to our repertoire and to
appreciate HKBH's partial kindness

After all in the Seder we give appreciation fro 15 separate "ma'alos"  In
this ge'ulah we have at least 2. Maybe the UN vote in 1947 is a third.   So
in a span of 60+ years we are seeing a restoration of EY as a makkom torah.
And soon, it will host the world's biggest roasted lamb/kid Bar-B-Q on the
next 14th of Nissan, bimheira beiyameinu-

-- 
Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
see: http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/
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