🎧 Parshas Emor - Lag BaOmer

An exploration of two puzzles: how taking children away from Talmud Torah could ever be justified, even for an hour, and what a bow and arrow has to do with Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. The answer runs through עת לעשות לה' הפרו תורתך, the missing rainbow in Rashbi's generation, the Zohar's link between a bright rainbow and צפי לרגלי דמשיחא, and the keshet as a symbol of the tefillah and bitul that pnimiyus haTorah demands — ending with why children specifically are called the future Mashiach.