<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Consolas;
panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:right;
direction:rtl;
unicode-bidi:embed;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Plain Text Char";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:right;
direction:rtl;
unicode-bidi:embed;
font-size:10.5pt;
font-family:Consolas;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.PlainTextChar
{mso-style-name:"Plain Text Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Plain Text";
font-family:Consolas;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page Section1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Akiva
Blum 07 May 2012> Prof. Levin>, Zev Sero: "Leading Qabbalist of
modern times, the Ben Ish Hai confirms this notion that RaShB"I did not
die on this date,... 3. ...as does the HID"A.So claims the article the
blog cites, but it gives no reference to be checked, and I'm not about to take
the author's word for it."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Sources:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>BIH:
in <i>Rav Paalim</i> 11. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Casts
doubt on printed version of Pri Etz Haim "yom Shemet". Doubts are substantiated
by ms Oxford 1760 and NLI 6720: "Yom simhat".<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>HIDA:
<i>Tov Ayin</i> 18, and again <i>Brikey Yosef</i> 493:4, as a secondary element
of Lag Baomer mentions off-hand: "there are those who say/wrote that that
this is the day of the death of Rashbi". Way out of character, he avoids
mentioning the source, which probably indicates it's Hemdat Yamim (ep 1731). In
any case, HIDA backs off the idea in his later response <i>Mar'it 'Ayin Liqutim
</i>7:8<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>As
we (Rav Kosman and myself) started to roll this ball (Lecture, Convention in
Honor of Halamish, Bar Ilan 4 Iyyar 2005), I did not intend to be the-Grinch-who-stole-Lag-L'Omer.
Aderabbah, it clears the protest of CS and the day remains a day of pure Simcha-
celebrating the survival of the Oral Torah in the hands of the 4 Tannaim of the
Galilee (ARI, sha'ar Hakavanot).The life-changing, ecstatic experience Hilulah
D'Rashbi (Idra Zuta, Talmud Bavli Ktuvot 62b) has no date attached to it. Its
modern-day hyper-emphasis, fittingly coupled with Lag L'Omer is the work of the
BIH and his followers even more-so than of the Hassidim. It is likely that the
BIH, author of the Pizmon for the Hilulah "Ish Elokim", would object
to the remark: "manifestation of confused priorities". Its sheer magnitude
appears to be answering a dire lacuna 21<sup>st</sup> cent. Jewish experience.<span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Dr.
Ezra Chwat<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>The
Department of Manuscripts/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Institute
of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>E.J.
Safra Campus, Givat Ram POB 39105,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Jerusalem
91390, Israel<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>Tel:
972-2-6586232 fax: 972-2-6584606<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'>blog:
Giluy Milta B'Alma: http://imhm.blogspot.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>