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All of your pre inspection cleaning ๐งน has motivated me to tackle LINEN -- hitting the closet now...
May 4th -- Mother's yahrzeit ๐๐ and now she is a part of the cosmos again as โก๏ธ diamond dust -- or rather sparkly subatomic particles โจ
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Beautiful ๐ French nerd who loved ๐ธ๐ถ and The Library ๐
Monday night, May 4, 2026
Tomorrow night is Lag BaOmer.
Lag BaOmer is the 33rd day of the Omer.
Yes, Jews count days between holidays.
Because apparently surviving Pharaoh, eating matzah for a week, and vacuuming crumbs out of every known human surface still wasnโt enough. We needed a spiritual Fitbit.
The Omer is the 49-day count between Passover and Shavuot.
Passover is freedom.
Shavuot is Torah.
So the Omer is the bridge between being liberated from Egypt and becoming a people with purpose.
Because Judaism never defines freedom as โdo whatever you want.โ
That is not freedom.
That is a toddler with scissors.
Freedom without responsibility becomes chaos. Freedom with Torah becomes civilization.
Lag BaOmer lands on day 33.
It is traditionally a break in a more serious period of reflection and semi-mourning. Weddings happen. Music comes back. Haircuts return. Kids run around. Bonfires are lit.
Very Jewish.
We mourn, we count, we argue, we remember, and then someone says, โAnyone bring marshmallows?โ
Lag BaOmer is also connected to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a great Jewish sage associated with Jewish mysticism. His life represents something Jews understand deeply:
Sometimes truth survives underground before it returns as fire.
That is the image of Lag BaOmer.
Fire.
Not destruction.
Illumination.
A flame in the middle of the counting.
A reminder that Jewish history is not just trauma. It is not just exile, persecution, pogroms, inquisitions, Holocaust memory, rockets, hostages, campus mobs, and random Gentiles on the internet explaining Judaism to Jews with the confidence of a drunk raccoon.
Jewish history is also light.
Learning.
Defiance.
Children singing around flames.
Old wisdom refusing to die.
A people who keep counting even when the world keeps trying to count us out.
That is Lag BaOmer.
Not the end of the journey.
A fire along the way.
Still moving from Egypt to Sinai.
Still turning freedom into responsibility.
Still turning survival into purpose.
Still here.
Still counting.
Still burning bright.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Carroll Wiseman ๐ studied biology at JMU and was a member of Alpha Sigma Tau before graduating in 1995. She worked as a pediatric nurse practitioner.
Carroll Crater is located on the far side of the moon ๐ https://t.co/HZJOYN7DGG