This Isn’t A Countdown - Parshat Emor - Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is asking with the parsha in five where in five minutes we try to give you an insight into the parsha. And could we do better than this this week? Because we have of course in parshas Emor the parsha of the mo'adim. There's only two places where we cover all of the holidays. It's over here in parshas Emor and it's in parshas Pinchas. With the sholosh regalim we have in Mishpatim, we have it in Ki Sisa, we have it in Re'eh, but uh all of the have it in Re'eh, but uh all of the holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Kippur included are only in parshas Emor and in parshas Pinchas. And in parshas Emor is called the parshas of mo'adim where we define what all the holidays are. And we have a holiday. Uh it's called Sefirat HaOmer. Very strange. It's a holiday. It says you'll celebrate Pesach. And on the second day of Pesach you will bring an offering of barley. And then you will count seven weeks. And then you will count seven weeks. And then you'll come to the 50th day and you'll bring a new offering of wheat. So this period of Sefirat HaOmer is seen as being a holiday. We're told to count these days. The Ramban famously says that it's one long chol hamoed from Pesach till Shavuot. One long continuity. Yeah, interesting concept. But Sefirat HaOmer is the time that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave is the time that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave us to focus on the connection between coming out of Egypt and receiving the Torah. Uh and to prepare ourselves for that. And we're supposed to count every day. I don't know which wit came up with the expression. It wasn't me. Yeah, I've used it but I didn't think it up. Uh you can't every day of the Omer because every day

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1. 0:00Hi, this is asking with the parsha in five where in five minutes we try to…
2. 0:30have it in Re'eh, but uh all of the holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Kippur included…
3. 1:01And then you will count seven weeks. And then you'll come to the 50th day and…
4. 1:32is the time that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave us to focus on the connection between coming…
5. 2:04every day of the Omer because every day counts. Brilliant. Yeah? But what it means is…
6. 3:04Uh I I I landed in Cape Town and they took me to a restaurant called…
7. 3:35It was not It was not a fun time. And by the way, they make very…
8. 4:07And we need to be able to keep ourselves focused. And that's very important. And that's…
9. 4:37the last month of school people would make a calendar and cross off each day till…
10. 5:07off, you know. So what what is that for? It turns out it was in a…

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