Kabbalah explains what to focus on during the Omer - Rabbi Alon Anava
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[Music] we're in the midst of and we want to know what exactly is this om and why for 49 days I have to go out of my way and count every day and what what is really happening in the time of the OM now we hear all sorts of different explanations and theories but I want to know practically what is this and very few people really take the time to say wait a minute I'm I'm obligated in counting now the OM but what's behind it and just by saying today is the first day the second day the third day if I don't know really what's going on then I'm kind of missing the point and we want to learn why we do things cuz if I do something without knowing what am I doing there's doing it like a parrot or like a herd is there's no point to it now the explains that is the root of my entire for the entire year meaning that my entire AEM my service of God is rooted in those 49 days that if I take that serious then it will manifest into my entire year now really what the time of the OM is is considered days of doing chuva of a days of of fixing what's called T and we mentioned that many times that one needs to fix their attributes their character traits is called tun and this is the time to do it this is the periods and this is really the the purpose of creation Hashem put us in imperfect world so we can make it perfect if hasem wanted to he would put us already in a perfect world but he said no I want to put you in an imperfect world that you
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