Stars in Your Eyes

Why would 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva be taken from the world, right between Pesach and Shavuos, for not giving each other honor? The Gemara in Yevamos says so, while another teaching blames their unhappiness at each other's spiritual success. Rabbeinu Yonah's words about this trait are hard to hear. Most of us know the small sting when a friend does well. What does that sting say about us when his success is in Torah and chesed? The Taz hides who he is by sweeping a shul, until a little girl walks out crying on Erev Shabbos, holding a chicken. A searching test of the heart for Sefiras HaOmer.As this is the first week on the podcast, a surprise ending with a brilliant story!