Rabbi Reuven Lauffer - Basic Judaism: Counting the Omer

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a few alas that need to be need to be discussed and need to be understood about so you know for those of you that have been paying attention every night there been after after Mar there's been a brock that's been recited and then you count another day we're currently on the 15th day of the OM which means that we started counting how many days ago how many days ago days ago anyway so let's have a look and see what we've got let's start at the very beginning and understand where the Mitzvah comes from um the to the Torin Mitzvah comes from um the to the Torin sikra tells us that every single person has to bring an OM offering sorry not every single that the Jews have to bring an OM offering what was an OM it was a measure of barley that had to be brought to the temple and when was it brought on the second day of PES and it had to then you count it for seven full weeks until the holiday knows the 49 days but of course falls on the 50th day not on the 49th day which maybe maybe we'll uh um maybe we'll take off a

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2. 5:20you mention the you know you mention which week you're in and which day of the…
3. 11:30you're unless you're careful to D every single doing together with a minion so over there…
4. 17:07blessing over the OM from then on until the end of whoa why H why is…
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6. 27:57people kept two days because of the conern that maybe them have huh no one of…
7. 33:40who are greater than they are that we don't we don't need to understand that one…
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9. 44:32to wait until that's the first opportunity there is to get married all three opinions that…
10. 50:12if it's if Mitzvah is celebrated on the right Bobby right and especially Brit mil um…

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