Rabbi Menachem Posner serves as managing editor at Chabad.org, the world’s largest Jewish informational website. He has been writing, researching, and editing for Chabad.org since 2006, when he received his rabbinic degree from Central Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch. He lives in Chicago, Ill., with his family.
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Steven Berkowitz
New York
May 5, 2026
May the coming holiday of Shavuot bring peace and much happiness to all peoples of our beautiful world. And may we each offer to each other the love and care we all deserve as Gods children. Reply
Feigue Cieplinski
Middletown
May 5, 2026
The two questions that I missed it is because I truly did not know the responses. 8/10 makes me anyway happy. Yet, it is a lesson to hit the books again. What did Rabbi Eleazar did? Study that part of the Mishna where Bar Yochai is there! There were no distracting answers, it is me who did not know. Thank you Rabbi Posner for keeping me on my toes. Reply
Angela wilder
Brooklyn
May 5, 2026
10/10 Reply
tzipporah batami
New Rochelle
May 5, 2026
Happy Lag Baomer all Reply
Jay
NYC
May 5, 2026
Wow this was very nice way of learning about our Holy Rashbi Reply
Ire
Panamá
May 5, 2026
10/10 Reply
Rita Forbes
Clinton
May 4, 2026
Hello,
Thank you [10/10]. Have a good evening.
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Rivka Rachum
WEST ORANGE
May 4, 2026
7/10, which was pretty good considering I guessed at all of them!! Reply
Dina
May 4, 2026
8/10 Reply
tzipporah batami
New Rochelle
May 4, 2026
Excellent and timely Reply
Sharukh khan
India
May 4, 2026
5/10 thanks rabbi I'm a muslim from india Reply
francis L kinney
Greenville
May 3, 2026
Was Rashbi one of the 24.000 who died from the plague? Reply
Shaike
Faifer
May 4, 2026
in response to francis L kinney:
Great question. No, in fact he only became a student after the story with the plague. Reply
Eliezer Zalmanov
for Chabad.org
May 4, 2026
in response to francis L kinney:
Rabbi Shimon and four others reestablished Rabbi Akiva's legacy after the plague. Reply
francis L kinney
Greenville
May 4, 2026
in response to Shaike:
OK- I thought the end of the plague, and Rashbi's passing, happened at the same time, L'ab B'Omer.
thanks!
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Shaike
Faifer
May 6, 2026
in response to francis L kinney:
This is also correct! The end of the plague actually coincides with the passing of RaShBI several decades later, (which he declared to be a day of celebration.) Lag Be'Omer is in fact a double celebration! Reply
tzipporah batami
New Rochelle
May 5, 2026
in response to Eliezer Zalmanov:
But it could everyone really be reestablished. Everything has its meaning. Reply
Abby Roth
Boca Raton, FL
September 9, 2025
6/10 Better than I thought! 😊 Reply
Kathryn Hague
Shiremoor, Newcastle Upon Tyne
February 4, 2025
I love these! So informative. A message easily delivered Reply
Yiscah
Kenya
August 4, 2024
5/10 not knowing much about Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai Reply
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monsy
May 24, 2024
7/10 Reply
Angela wilder
Brooklyn
February 27, 2024
10/10 thank you Rabbi Reply
Rossana Rizzo
May 16, 2023
Non ho risposto bene ai quiz, studiare da sola è un po' difficile, grazie Reply
Lauren Diane Spector
Bend,OR
May 14, 2023
6/10 well I did not do so well. I will read more about Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai .
Thank you Rabbi for these quizzes. I wish everyone a Healthy, Happy and Peaceful. Week.'
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