This weekโs @jewsinfandoms prompt is โfireโ! And today is Lag BaOmer โ thus, I wrote a Jewish Good Omens ficlet.
500 words, rated G.
Bar Yochai (You Are Fortunate)
In the shadows just beyond the Lag BaOmer bonfire, an angel and a demon watched the celebrations, reminiscing about the sage in whose honor the festivities were partially dedicated.
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this is probably heretical on many levels and Lag BaโOmer is technically over now but every time people talk about rabbi shimon bar yochai and his laser eyes the line โburnt the fire of his eyesโ keeps going through my head, which inspired me to commit this lag baโomer-themed travesty against William Blakeโs โThe Tygerโ:
shimon, shimon bar yochai
left a cave beneath the sky
what immortal hand or eye
could frame thy fearful symmetry?
in what distant deeps or skies
burnt the fire of thine eyes?
you wrote the zohar, all that strain-
in what furnace was thy brain?
and when the Star threw down his spear
and akiva shed a bitter tear
on what wings dared he aspire?
what false messiah seized that fire?
rabbi shimon bar yochai
left his cave, beneath the sky
what immortal hand or eye
dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Let's explore a story that embodies the idea of Reish as a bridge between the spiritual and the physical. This is the tale of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, also known as Rashbi, a famous 2nd-century Tannaitic sage in ancient Judea, and one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi Akiva.
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the author of the Zohar, the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah, was once forced to hide in a cave with his son, Rabbi Elazar, due to persecutions by the Roman Empire.
According to the Talmud, they remained in this cave for twelve years, sustained only by a carob tree and a spring of water created by divine intervention.
During this time, they devoted themselves entirely to the study and contemplation of the Torah and spiritual matters, completely detached from the physical world. Their bodies were covered in sand up to their necks to preserve their clothing, as they had no change of garments.
When they were finally able to leave the cave, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai demonstrated a profound understanding of both the spiritual and physical worlds. He could perceive the spiritual root causes of physical phenomena, and he used this ability to teach, to heal, and to perform miracles.
This story illustrates the concept of Reish as a bridge between the physical and the spiritual. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his son, living in the cave, were in a sense living in the world of the Reish - they were physically present in the world, but their focus was on the spiritual. When they emerged, they were able to bring the spiritual insights they had gained into the physical world, acting as a bridge between the two realms.
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