“Mi k’amacha Yisrael!” There might have been more comfortable ways to spend Lag BaOmer which fell on Memorial Sunday, than sweltering in the intense heat of the pounding sun rays of a New Jersey cemetery.
That’s what made the spectacle in Floral Park Cemetery in South Brunswick all the more significant and inspiring.
But this was not only during the day.
Starting from Motzei Shabbos, throughout the whole night, thousands of people from all different walks of life flocked to the cemetery from all areas of New York, New Jersey and even other states and countries.
All came to daven in the zechus of the Bobover Rebbe, Rav Naftali zy”a, who once made a mysterious comment alluding to his connection to Rabi Shimon on Lag BaOmer.
The piercing cries of the yehi ratzon recited after Tehillim every 15 minutes or so, swept all those who entered into the uplifting atmosphere.
Yehi Ratzon that the tefillos should all be accepted, amein!
