[Avodah] Dancing Around A Bonfire & Concern of Foreign Practices: Rav Wosner's Responsum

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 12:45:50PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: >I don't know the origin.
: 
: The origin is with the shift in the significance of the day from the
: end of mourning for R Akiva's students to the celebration of
: Rashbi's happy day, the day of his "wedding", when he revealed the
: Idra Zuta and returned to his Maker.

That's is the taam behind the post-change practice. It does not explain
how or when the older minhag was changed.

And, the first mention that the Peri Eitz Chaim's "yom simchas Rashbi"
is a day for our simchah is Chamdas Yamim. With the problem that raises.

You also insert your own explanation of "yom simchas Rashbi". It could,
after all, still be his yahrzeit, or as per your own rebbe (RMMS,
in a letter to R' Zevin; unforunately I don't have a mar'eh maqom)
that it was the day R' Aqiva started over with 5 talmidim -- thus,
Rashbi's simchah as one of those 5.

...
: The first edition of SA Harav, and especially Hilchos Pesach, which
: is the first section he wrote, follows nigleh, not nistar, and
: relies heavily on the Magen Avraham...

I do not know if celebrations the night of Lag baOmer existed yet even.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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