[Avodah] A Printing Mistake and the Mysterious Origins of Rashbi???s Yahrzeit

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:40:37AM -0400, Rafi Hecht wrote:
: I've read this before, just in a different context:
: <http://muqata.blogspot.com/2006/05/lag-baomer-one-big-mistake.html>

We discussed it here too.

The Ari, as recorded in the Peri Eitz Chaim, definitely linked Lag baOmer
to R' Shimon bar Yochai. The typo sameich to shemeis would change it
from being the day the day of Rashbi's samechah to the day on which he
died. And it is even possible that the simchah involved was itself a
reference to a hillulah, and it was referring to is yahrzeit anyway.

But given that the linkage itself isn't in dispute, I fail to see how
pointing out this typo plays down the role of Meron observances.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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