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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. Reply

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! Reply

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

L 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.' Reply

FY Sunnyvale CA May 11, 2023

9/10. A little late to the quiz, but not a bad score. Reply

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