Editing Shimon Bar Yochai (section)

== Poems in His Honor ==
In honor of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, many poems were composed throughout the generations. Two of them became famous and are sung by all groups and communities on his Hilula day: the poem "Bar Yochai" composed by Rabbi Shimon ben Lavi, the "Ketem Paz" from Tripoli-Libya, and the poem "Va'amartem Ko LeHai" composed by Rabbi Yosef Chaim, the "Rav Pe'alim" and "Ben Ish Chai" from Babylon-Iraq. Additional poems were composed by Rabbi Yosef Leib Shapira, a resident of Safed, according to the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and they are the poems: "Mi Lachem Po" (a poem for Lag BaOmer) and the melody "Ashreinu Mah Tov Chelkeinu" for the Hilula of Bar Yochai.