A Revolutionary Way to Understand the Mitzvah of Sefiras HaOmer

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

and and as Hashem certainly deepen our understanding of the days of Sefiras HaOmer. The question we're going to discuss is we know that whenever we do a mitzvah the first time we do the mitzvah we make a Shehecheyanu. And surprisingly the first time we count Sefiras HaOmer which is on the second day of Pesach we just go get right to it. We say Baruch atah Hashem Elokeinu Melech ha'olam asher kideshanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu al Sefiras HaOmer hayom yom echad la'Omer and we don't make a Shehecheyanu. Why don't we make a Shehecheyanu on Sefiras HaOmer? We make Shehecheyanu on Sefiras HaOmer? We make a Shehecheyanu first time we light the Nerot Chanukah even on Purim we make Shehecheyanu on on every Yom Tov whether it's Shavuot whether it's Pesach whether it's Sukkot we make Shehecheyanu on the first time we take the Lulav and Etrog. Why don't we make a Shehecheyanu the first time we count Sefiras HaOmer? You never thought of that before right? Why don't we make a Shehecheyanu? And what I would like to um expose everyone to is a number of new Rishonim not new they've been around but maybe not new they've been around but maybe new to us. Some of the names we might not be so familiar with but these Rishonim make up the backbone of what our halacha is. And we begin with the Sefer HaYashar. The Sefer HaYashar was written by Rabbeinu Yitzchak ben Rabbeinu Avraham Mari. Now I want you to pay attention to where these Rishonim lived. Okay? The Sefer HaYashar Rabbeinu Yitzchak was born in 1122 in Provence. It's in France. And he passed away in 1193 in Marseilles

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1. 0:32and and as Hashem certainly deepen our understanding of the days of Sefiras HaOmer. The question…
2. 4:05Shehecheyanu on Sefiras HaOmer? And he wants to know why don't on during the days of…
3. 8:12The Baalei Tosafot's second answer he adds one nekudah which makes it different than the Baalei…
4. 12:16Sefirat Omer you make the second day. So you say oh it's okay because on Chol…
5. 16:19The whole Bracha is going to be a Bracha Levatalah. So now you can't count Sefirah.…
6. 20:25Sefer Adam v'Chava. Adam talks about all the halachos of man from birth until marriage. That's…
7. 24:29l'hashkif koach hadin of the Omer, which is sholeit at night. And how do we, so…
8. 28:40very odd. Because here, while we're counting Sefirah I in anticipation of Kabbalas HaTorah, and it…
9. 32:44hechsher mitzvah. The Orchos Chaim said maybe it's not a hechsher mitzvah, but the mitzvah has…
10. 36:49of Mitzrayim, the tumah of avodah zarah, and they're waiting for the Ribono shel Olam to…

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