Lag B'Omer - Why Did the Rabbis Die? - Short and Powerful Message from Rabbi Mintz

here we are at the 33rd day of SP we started counting the second day from the second day of pesak 1 2 3 4 and now we're up to 33 we have another few weeks left count to 49 to right here in the middle the 33rd day that we're counting called giml 33 in counting of the OM which has absolutely nothing Well has very little to do like which this a happy day we consider with the counting of om itself uh we have uh a uh tradition of keeping a morning period between P some people Beyond and U that has nothing to do with the counting of the itself but happened during that period the great Rabbi AKA who had many students and they all thousands of them of them died during the period between PES and L and according to some authorities they stopped dying on ler and that's why it's a happy day on the Jewish calendar since the uh plague that we're dying from stopped from here we have to take a very important lesson why did these great people great student students great disciples Rabbi Kea why did they die during that period we're told by rabbis because they did not have the proper respect for one another they uh were great people and they studied Torah diligently but they were so great that God expected them to have a very very strong sensitive uh feeling and uh respect for one another more than regular since they were not regular people and according to their greatness according to the the level that they reached God felt that they didn't have the proper respect for one another and therefore he decreed upon them that they should not live any longer so this is something we have to learn a very strong lesson from that we have to realize the greatness of every Jewish person and treat him with greatest respect to realize no matter who he is the most simple person but it's God's creation God God felt he's worthwhile creating he must be somebody very special we have to look at him as God's creation we have to look at him look at the sh that he has God gave a soul not only his body that we see in front of our eyes but a Holy Soul which will live forever which will be close to Hashem he has in his well connected to his body that means he's a very very special person he's called the Jewish people called God's children he's one of God's children children so we have to look at every Jewish person as a very very outstanding special important person and and give the proper respect to every person around us that we meet to realize the greatness to say the right good morning to them with the right kind of uh uh feeling say gabas with a smile uh try to help people when they need help not to gossip about them say even behind their back if they're so important so great how can we talking against them how can we say gos against them when a person is B when the person has pain we're told God is has pain for him also Imagine That how important every Jewish person is that little me little him little us was so big that God feels that he has to have we don't know what that means exactly but whatever it means it means something God feels pain when we feel pain that's how we have to look at every individual and treat with a proper respect this is a great lesson that we learned from and we want to be able to live with a happy life and God to be happy with us let's make sure that we give the proper respect to our friends to our families to our fellow Jew we find even the great rabbis when they walked in the street even met met a non Jew they made to say good morning before anybody else can say good morning to them because this is a creation of God God created the Jews and non-jews he also has his place in life so we have to be friendly to them also bottom line let's make sure we keep give the proper respect to every individual and this is something that God will be very happy with we should have very happy and a good preparation for the great sh coming up