The Convert the Bar Mitzvah and the Moshiach I Sefirat Haomer

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

The Torah commands us, you shall count for yourselves the counting of the Omr for days. The word you shall count to yourself to you says that means as follows that your attributes your character traits shall beim shall be full of light and brilliance. We need to bring brilliance and light and illumination into ourselves, into our seven emotions of kindness, of severity, of mercy, to make sure that each one of these attributes are beautiful and perfect and give off light to the rest of the world. This is the general objective of the counting of the omare to make yourself more beautiful. these seven character traits. Each day of the Omar, we count the day. Today is day one. It comes to the second day. We don't say today is the second day of the Omr. We say today is two days of the Omr. In other words, we count the cardinal numbers, not the ordinal numbers. What's the reason for this? The reason for this is being that the spir is going up a ladder. Each day we're getting better and better, more and more refined, more and more light, more and more brilliance. So now on day two, not only did I enter into the second phase, but I also have the accomplishments of day one. On day 30, I have the accomplishments of all 29 days as well. So it's not the 30th day. It's 30 days of accomplishment. 30 days of journeying, 30 days of Omar of bringing brilliance and light into my life. With that in

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1. 0:00The Torah commands us, you shall count for yourselves the counting of the Omr for days.…
2. 2:12mind, let's take it a bit further into questions to understand what is the true definition…
3. 4:52has a beautiful innovative insight to the concept of the Omr which will answer additional questions…
4. 7:39previously. So therefore, you can count, let's say, for the first 10 days and accidentally miss…
5. 10:24he goes into a new category and now he has a mitzvah to count based on…
6. 13:07As we know that we were 49 levels of impurity when God took us out of…
7. 15:56forbidden fruit and Adam when he gave over the message he confused the message and therefore…
8. 18:37us the revealed Torah on Sinai and is the day of Torah of the giving of…
9. 21:23at least over 33 days of children coming together and they all get their hair cut…
10. 23:57myb you know that four years ago I made an oath that if you would bless…

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