Nachdaily: 5 Minute Perek Of Tanach Covering The Entire Navi. Sefer Yehoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel, Melachim, Yeshaya, Yirmiya, Ye

Welcome to NachDaily. Today I would like to discuss the inyan of Lag Ba’omer and the greatness of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Hopefully through this we can start to appreciate and connect to the one of the great Tzaddikim of all time. The Gemara in Sukka 45b brings: ואמר חזקיה א"ר ירמיה משום רשב"י יכול אני לפטור את כל העולם כולו מן הדין מיום שנבראתי עד עתה ואילמלי אליעזר בני עמי מיום שנברא העולם ועד עכשיו ואילמלי יותם בן עוזיהו עמנו מיום שנברא העולם עד סופו Rabbi Shimon Bar Yachai said. “I can exempt and remove the whole world from judgment from the time I was born until now. If my son Eliezer was with me, we could remove the judgment from the world from the time it was created until now. If Yosam ben Uzziah was with us, we would be able to completely remove judgment from the world from the beginning of the creation until the end!” This is really an incredible statement. Rebbe Shimon could have eradicated all din, judgment from the world. Astounding! Rashbi was able to raise up not only people who knew him,