<span>On 8/05/2012 3:27 AM, Ezra Chwat wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote"></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
BIH: in Rav Paalim 11.<br>Casts doubt on printed version of Pri Etz Haim "yom Shemet". Doubts are<br>substantiated by ms Oxford 1760 and NLI 6720: "Yom simhat".</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote">
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<div>RZS wrote:</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span>Yes, but what is that simcha?</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Ben Ish Hai says in Da'at u'Tevunah (petichah rishonah) that a possible explanation of "yom simchat RASHBI" is that it's the day that Rabbi Akiva started to teach Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai (thus making a direct connection between the two events that we celebrate on Lag LaOmer).</div>
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