Mitzvas Sefiras HaOmer: Shiur by Rav Asher Weiss Shlita at Kollel Merkaz Hatorah in LA

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Yeah. So, I figured that everybody would be interested in hearing a sheer about Sefiras HaOmer. We are in the midst of this unique mitzvah of Sefiras HaOmer. So, we will discuss some yesod, some ideas about Sefiras HaOmer. And if time allows, I don't know how much time we have, then maybe we will touch upon some then maybe we will touch upon some halacha l'maaseh, dilemmas as well. So, Sefiras HaOmer l'chora is one of the many mitzvos sheb' dibbur. We know that the taryag mitzvos could be broken down in many ways, and one of them, as the Mekubalim wrote many years ago, but it's not really Kabbalah, it's halacha, it's hagdara, the taryag mitzvos are divided into the taryag mitzvos are divided into mitzvos sheb' dibbur, machshava, and maaseh. Many mitzvos are about your thoughts, which is ahavas Hashem, yiras Hashem, emunah, seichel, and many mitzvos that are about your thoughts and your feelings. Most of the mitzvos are about your actions and your deeds, mitzvos sheb' maaseh. Many mitzvos, many of them min haTorah, many mid'Rabbanan, are mitzvos sheb' dibbur. dibbur. Which would be min haTorah, krias Shema and birkas haTorah, tefillah, birkas haKol Yomi, and then we have mikra Megillah and mikra Bikurim and vidui maaser, a great part of mitzvos haTorah mitzvos sheb' dibbur. Many of them min haTorah, many mid'Rabbanan. The Bnei Yissachar, who was an amazing phenomenon, a phenomenal godol, a chassidic master, and he wrote many seforim, Hasidus and Kabbalah and Drush and Halacha. and Halacha. And one of his unique seforim is called Derech Pikudecha. And the Derech Pikudecha is just to explain Chelkei Machshava, Dibbur, and Ma'aseh in each and every one of the Mitzvos. And he argues that every Mitzvah has a Chelek of Machshava, Dibbur, and Ma'aseh. We only have Nun Ches, 58 Mitzvos, and nobody knows. Did he write on the entire spectrum of

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1. 0:00Yeah. So, I figured that everybody would be interested in hearing a sheer about Sefiras HaOmer.…
2. 4:35Halacha. That is Halacha. One of the fundamental concepts and principles in the lotion of the…
3. 9:07the greatest Halacha. The Chok Yaakov is the Shulchan Aruch Yaakov. The man Chok Yaakov and…
4. 13:45And if you listen to another and there is kavana sh'miyah v'kavanas mashmiyah, you yoitzeh. However,…
5. 18:23Just a side comment. There is no such concept as Chiva Kedibbur. It sounds so natural…
6. 22:58And he writes Beis Din has a separate mitzvah on sfiras ha'omer like sfiras shnas hashmitin…
7. 27:36And I wrote about this a great length of social clearly mitzvah. The concept is only…
8. 32:17Because when you put it down in writing that is a k'vi'a of mispar hayom. So…
9. 36:52Maya Adam and that's a good morning. Oh my home. Yeah, you are Shiva Maya Square.…
10. 41:35we climb another rung of this ladder. And it's two feet between one rung and the…

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