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This Isn’t A Countdown - Parshat Emor - Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

An exploration of the spiritual meaning behind Sefirat HaOmer and its connection to the Exodus and receiving the Torah.

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  1. 0:00Hi, this is asking with the parsha in five where in five minutes we try to…
  2. 0:30have it in Re'eh, but uh all of the holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Kippur included…
  3. 1:01And then you will count seven weeks. And then you'll come to the 50th day and…
  4. 1:32is the time that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave us to focus on the connection between coming…
  5. 2:04every day of the Omer because every day counts. Brilliant. Yeah? But what it means is…
  6. 3:04Uh I I I landed in Cape Town and they took me to a restaurant called…
  7. 3:35It was not It was not a fun time. And by the way, they make very…
  8. 4:07And we need to be able to keep ourselves focused. And that's very important. And that's…
  9. 4:37the last month of school people would make a calendar and cross off each day till…
  10. 5:07off, you know. So what what is that for? It turns out it was in a…

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