Hidden Light - Shimon Bar Yochai: Meron
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Entranceway to the Kever
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Celebration at Meron
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There is a spark in Jewish hearts that bursts into flame on Lag B'Omer.
By the eve of Lag B'Omer tens of thousands of people begin to stream to
Meron, the burial place of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, from all over the country. The steady influx continues thoughout the night and uninterrupted
all the following day. This phenomena, the endless procession of Jews coming and going,
is magically wonderful in its unity.
On Lag B'Omer especially, we identify with Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
and Meron. Something is awakened in our hearts that we are drawn to Meron. And we come
and we come, over 250,000 of us came this past year.
This motivates the key words: Lag B'Omer, Rashbi, and Meron.
We set up a study that uses the spelling of Rashbi with and without the prefix ה,
which is the definite article in Hebrew, and we use two spellings for Meron, with and without
a י. There are thus a total of four combinations. The p-values were
16/1,000, 762/1,000, 284/1,000, and 8/1,000. Using our standard protocol,
the probability that a text from the ELS random
text placement population would produce as good as a combined result as the Torah text did
is 32/1,000. We show the tables associated with the two smallest p-values.
The expected number of ELSs is set to 15. The
cylinder size is 4,760. The probability that a text from the ELS random placement text population would
have a tables as compact as this one is 16/1,000.
Finding by Professor Haralick
The expected number of ELSs is set to 15. The
cylinder size is 3,033. The probability that a text from the ELS random placement text population would
have a tables as compact as this one is 8/1,000.
Finding by Professor Haralick
