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14. The Cave, the Fire, and the Cost of Truth | 8 minutes of Halacha and Pnimiyut

14. The Cave, the Fire, and the Cost of Truth | 8 minutes of Halacha and Pnimiyut

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Why did Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai retreat to a cave, and what does that story demand of us today? In this 8-minute teaching, Rav Shlomo Katz unpacks the holy defiance of Rashbi: a man who refused to compromise, whose words scorched falsehood, and whose cave became a furnace of Torah. As Lag Ba’Omer approaches, we’re called to examine our own idols of comfort and political correctness—and to step, trembling yet whole, into the fire of truth.

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