Pesach: Counting the Omer - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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[Music] one of these happens on basically the beginning of the counting of the Omer and that's what I would like to talk to you about today first of all I want to look at the verse first of all I want to look at the verse that commands it and I think there are some secrets there which Rashi reveals but I read very very carefully and for that we'll get an insight into what's going on when we count the Omer and then we'll expand it to some broader areas of philosophy if we have time I'll tell you what the priests attic says about the relationship between per second and counting The Omen in outline the second day of Pesach we start counting start counting we count forty-nine days and the day after the counting of the 49 days is mischievous and this is a unique phenomenon because the result is Shavuos has no fixed day of the calendar there's no fixed date since the fifty day spans three months and in biblical times the months were of variable lengths each months were of variable lengths each month could be 29 or 30 days we have two designations of months in between so in biblical times the date of Shavuos was either the fifth or the sixth or the seventh of Sivan it was not regular every other holiday has a fixed date and a calendar so what you see right away is that Lewis is defined as a certain amount of time after Pesach not as a date in the

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1. 0:01[Music] one of these happens on basically the beginning of the counting of the Omer and…
2. 4:11days so what is it 49 50 but there's Noth it's worse than that even before…
3. 8:22fiftieth day not towards the 49th day when the count will be over but towards the…
4. 12:29all the myths of circus are gone still it's called the eighth date sort of text…
5. 16:36fragile my efforts often aren't permanent I'm asking you to take what I have done I…
6. 21:15question Jacob is a J is Jacob he's a prophet you know he's above normal normal…
7. 25:23genius among other things at expressing himself in clear organized and simple ways that's one of…
8. 29:28that being the case they said it has no no calendar date of its own we…
9. 33:35does is another spiritual idea now here you eat matzah and of course you avoid comments…
10. 37:40this counting me counting the Omer where do we get the ability to work on those…

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