Intro to Sefirat HaOmer | The Counting of the Omer Explained

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

It says in the Holy Torah, There is a mitzvah in the Torah which is an amazing thing already. As you know, a mitzvah means a connection point. It's a way to tap into your spiritual essence and have a true relationship with your uh self, the ani, relationship with your uh self, the ani, the atmos the the essence of who you really are. This is what mitzvah are doing. They're pumping up your soul. Your soul loves putting on to fill in. Soul loves saying the loves eating matzah. Your body might not like eating matzah. Your soul loves doing. We learned that in we say it is imperative. It's an obligation that everyone sees themselves as if they themselves left. And the basic meaning themselves left. And the basic meaning is your own slavery to your ego or whatever your slavery is to what other people think of you to things going your way to whatever your slavery is you have to leave your own slavery behind the pznar the rebna who was actually the rav of the warsaw ghetto today is yawah and it's also we're remembering the wars ghetto uprising the worst conditions you could possibly imagine he was the rabbi in there he says You have to see yourself. See yourself. You have to see yourself. See yourself. See your see who you really are. First thing we say in the morning is some people think it means I am grateful. But deeper sages teach us it means I acknowledge myself. There's a me. There's a there's a perfect pure soul. If you see yourself as a perfect soul that is leaving you've left. You've left the Egypt, the slavery of your body and your ego. So the first thing a mitzvah does is connect you to your

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