The Lesson I Learned in Meron

Lag Ba'Omer 2018 was a night I would never forget. It was my first time going by myself to the mountaintop of Meron, a city that -- together with Tzfat and Tiberias -- became the center of Torah learning once the Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 CE. While the sages relocated to Tiberias and the mystics roamed the winding roads of Tzfat, Meron's principal claim to fame was Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the man who settled there and started teaching the art of Kabbalah.