Learning Torah of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Lag Ba'Omer

Hashem will put us in a situation where we're going to have to make a choice are we with him or are we with the idol worshippers it's a simple choice and this is one of the things that we're going to learn directly and indirectly from this next Mish uh 34 says the following translation rabish Shimon talking about rabish Shimon barai says if three have eaten in the same table and have not spoken words of Torah it is as if they have eaten an offering of dead Idols as it is said in the book of Isaiah chapter 28:8 for all tables are full of vomit and filth without the omnipresent but if three have eaten at the same table and have spoken words of Torah there it is as if they have eaten from the table of the omnipresent as it is says in the Book of Ezekiel 41:22 and he said to me this is the table that is before hasem okay little bit of a difficult mishna in a sense where you're trying to connect the two what does three people having a nice dinner some P some kumus have to do with idol worship okay say you don't say doesn't make you an idol worshipper what somebody doesn't say if that's the case we're all doomed so we have to understand what this mishna means first and for foremost we have to understand where it's coming from rimon the says that any time it says the rimon it's referring to Rish Shimon now why is this so important R shim was one of the tanim he was also one of the major students OFA but rimonim is loved by everyone especially secular people you say if you say rim to most sapharic women of previous generation right wait 500 times they get excited they have candles the whole teaching of the where does it come from when they do all the things that let's say for example the bov the all of the was against it but nonetheless the point is that when people talk about different secret parts of the Torah where did they get it from Shimon people get excited about Shimon why they get so excited Shimon give us some reasons to party he give us l b everybody knows l b what you do l b in Israel you do it in America you don't do anything unfortunately you got arrested you make a bonfire in Israel remember as a kid we make the bonfire in the backyard or sometime somewhere in the uh big place over there everybody gathers wood the whole week you throw some Bato some uh potatoes you party all night the kids the adults no one worries about what's going to happen tomorrow if there's school there's no school nothing like that you party all night you eat you drink so this is perfect for the for the secular people wow everybody wants to be religious that day everybody keeps that holiday some of them are even they do it all year round every time they go to every time they go to the beach they always want to do a bonfire shim shim shim soimon According to some people gave us a reason to party up he also gave us a lot of secrets that a lot of people like some people don't keep Shabbat don't keep Mish don't keep kosher even nothing we tellish Shimon they'll listen to you oh Shimon that's thear yeah what do he say they like to hear stories in thear there's a lot of mystical things about angels about Chim people are very interested in mystical stuff even if they're not religious at all so people love Rish Shimon has all the mystical stuff rabish Shimon signed off on it that's what people think until you read the whole you see that mystical was dayto Day by everybody but anyway everyone knows this mystical book of thear that most people don't even know how to read but they think that this is something that's uh because it's less accessible because it's less understood that's what they want the basics the most important Five Books of Moses no no that's not inter that's for that's for the really religious people I want the mystical stuff your you know they want to go directly to the secret no one wants to know the stuff theat everybody wants to go to the secret okay fine so if we're respecting and honoring let's see what he says so says the following he says if three people have eaten at the same table just like B going to have a table you're not going to eat on the floor you're have a table muming hopefully on a day-to-day basis you're going to have a table you're going to eat or even if you you don't have a table three people eating together and they don't speak it's as if they've eaten the offering of an idolish Shimon seems like he's a little bit K here seems a little extreme okay I understand I like the Party part I like the L I like the mystical stuff shim relax already with this idol worship just because I don't speak T maybe I don't know anything so how did rimon become who he is if you look at theat page 33 I believe and um it says that after Rish Shimon found out that the Romans were making Jewish people's lives more difficult he didn't hold his opinion he's not like today's politically correct rabbis said no no listen say you like Trump say you like uh Hillary Clinton say you like Obama and Osama say you like whoever because it's good for the Jews it's good for the Jews what do you mean it's good for the Jews Obama wanted to kill every Jew in the world he just didn't have the permission what are you talking about no no but it's not good it's not good just befriend him no no my friend Shimon said you're going against Tora you're an enemy of hm you're an enemy of hm you're enemy of mine and he publicized his his opinion no worries at all but he obviously wasn't a fool he realized that they're going to hate him they're going to want to kill him so he ran away so him and his son rabar ran into the mountains and hid in a cave for 13 years all they had with them was Torah one set of clothes that they put on that they wore there the tree in the front that uh grew carobs which if you eat carobs even for like one time all your teeth would break and it was right next to a river so they drank the water of the river they ate the carobs for breakfast lunch and dinner without complaints and the clothing they only wore on Shabbat what do they wear the rest of the week nothing they dug themselves a hole in the ground they went into the ground they covered themselves in sand so they could learn T because you can't learn T when you're uh naked so they cover themselves with sand why do they do this because said listen we have to have clothing it's an honor of Shabbat you can't show up to shabbat with ripped clothing you got to look honorable the Queen's coming you going to go with the ripped clothing ripped jeans to see the queen not so they said listen the whole week we're going to beer stay inside the hole to make sure that our clothing doesn't get ruined and that's what they did for 13 years their dedication to Torah was to such an extent that kazal says that when they came out they saw regular average Torah observant Farmers they weren't back then there weren't really many people that uh violated Shabbat in the open because anyone that violated Shabbat would get killed there was still a SED so they saw Torah observant Jews working in a farm you know you work you learn normal they saw them and they said how could they waste any time in this mundane world how could they spend any time not learning toah they couldn't understand how somebody that knows that the Torah exists and spends any time at all doing anything else they just came out of a cave where 24 hours a day they were learning Torah they got to such a high level of K learning from the Angels Learning things that are beyond our comprehension that they connected and they became completely like fully holy they Sanctified their own bodies their own flesh to such an extent that when they saw these people just living their life they were keeping Shabbat they were keeping Kos they keeping they were observant people not bad people they couldn't understand them dealing with the world the way they were and their created a fire that was starting to burn the people until hasem moments later came out from shamai a but call a Heavenly voice came out from shamai and said did you come out of the cave to destroy my world go back inside and he sent them back inside and during the next year he lowered them intentionally lowered their level of Kus because you knew that the high level that they got to both of them RAB elazar and his father rabish Shimon was too much for this world