The Omer - A Mystical Understanding

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

tonight is about the counting of the omer so really if you think about it sverata ome is a strange title we're counting we're counting the days we're not counting the omer the omer was a once-off korban an offering brought on the second day of pesach so what does it mean we're counting the omaha maybe the days of the omer but nevertheless the omar as he said was a one-off korban and yet sverata uma is the name and what i try what i'm going to try because hashem to show to share with you tonight is a maybe a deeper understanding ezekiel describes zion possible the exodus the exodus the atheism israel as a birth it says in the passage and your birth on literally on the day of your birthday in mitzrayim we were born and at haseenai we became gdholim we became adults so to speak we went from being ketanim children not just children but born to being gedolim the word katan a child a minor and the word godol are revealing in this context the word katan is connected to the aramaic cut in fact we have the same word in english cut katan why is a katan cut because akatan finds it very difficult to stitch one moment of his reality to the to the next a katan a baby a child will be the happiest person in the world if you give him a popsicle and if you take it away from him his world has come to an end cut katura he's cut he doesn't he's not able he sees himself very much in another way cut off from the reality of the world and he doesn't see himself like that but that's really a katan a baby is prepared to wake up an entire continent because he has a tickle in the back of his throat

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3. 7:00there are two kinds of counting and this is really where the point i wanted to…
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9. 30:41of everything oma matria yehesh omar is reality clarifying the yesh the there is the aish…
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