– Q. Dear Rabbi and friend, Long Life to you and to the good work you do. I have a most important time sensitive question.
I was driving alone last week late after attending a simcha of a good friend. Then I took as shortcut into a deserted side street, close to the hall you are certainly familiar with, and as I stooped at a light some local obviously Muslim looking five individuals familiar with the hall and its common Jewish simches, approached my car with guns an knives in their hands.
They forced me out of the car and to give them all I had. I didn’t have much cash and the loss was not great, and as another car was approaching with friends who then jumped out to save, they all run away.
I feel I have not only as required to Bentch Gomel and thank Hashem for the great miracle of salvation. More so as I have to do a siyum on a Masechta I recently ended, I would like to do it also as a Seudas Hodo’a to thank Hashem for his Great, truly Great kindness. My question is, since this coming Thursday is also Yom Hameyuchas, is it worthwhile to make then the siyum and seudas Hodoa?
A. Indeed next Thursday (May 29 2025), will Iy”H be the forty-sixth day of the Sefirah Count of the Omer and is also called Yom Ha Meyuchas, the Day of Distinction. It corresponds to the Second Day of Sivan, also the day before the beginning of the Shloshes Yemei Hagbolah, or the Three Days of Restraint that Moshe ordered the Jewish Nation to observe and prepare for the Receiving of the Torah.
It included the restraint from common pleasures including marital intimacy. The purpose of the latter was so that the entire Jewish People would certainly be pure and full participants on the Day that HaShem would give the Torah to them.
Since it is as is a special day for feeling our clossness to Hashem it would see proper to do your Siyum and Seudas Hodoa.
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