Alight

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Alight

Whoever trusts in Rabi Shimon bar Yochai can draw chizuk from Rabi Shimon bar Yochai. Just as HaKadosh Baruch Hu is [available] for everyone, so is Rabi Shimon bar Yochai for everyone, even the lowly. (Beis Aharon)

There’s no sacred site, aside from the Kosel, which attracts such a diverse spectrum of Jews as Meron. What’s strange is that Rabi Shimon is renowned as the master of Kabbalah, the esoteric sections of Torah reserved for elite talmidei chachamim. If there’s a figure who’s irrelevant to the masses, especially the unobservant masses, we’d think it would be Rabi Shimon. Yet they flock to Rabi Shimon with the sense that he’s “theirs,” and celebrate enthusiastically at his holy burial place.

And what does the Beis Aharon mean, that merely having emunah in Rabi Shimon bar Yochai is enough to give a Jew encouragement?

In the question itself, we find the answer. Because Rabi Shimon Bar Yochai is the master of secrets, every single Jew, especially spiritually downtrodden Jews, draw joy and encouragement from him.