From Sinai to Messiah: 50 Days to Freedom & a Meaningful Life! The Secret of Counting the Omer

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Heart is feeling. Heart is emotion. Heart is not direction. Brain is direction. And if we're going to be all heart, we're going to be confused. Similar to an animal. That's why an animal, when it walks, its heart and brain are on the same level. When a human walks, the brain is above the heart. And these are all things built into creation. You might say, "Oh, you know, you're having This is like kid stuff." No, this is not kid stuff. It's called God stuff. From Pesach until Shavuot. Uh in the Gemara, they call Shavuot Atzeret. It's a It's a It's the day that we stop what we're doing and we we come together. Uh Again, Shavuot is the giving of the Torah. There's 50 days in between our departure from Egypt and Shavuot. So, what What is the point here? What are we trying to accomplish? And what is the message of these 50 total days being connected as where our starting point is Egypt and our final point is Maamad Har Sinai, receiving a Torah from God at Mount Sinai. Having God open up God at Mount Sinai. Having God open up the heavens and showing us the ultimate reality, ultimate truth. So, I think the answer is found in something that actually surfaces later. Meaning, the first time the Jews counted the Omer, 50 days in the desert, it wasn't called the Omer. It was called counting, Sefirah. So, originally, there was something called Sefirah. And when there was a Beit Hamikdash and a Mishkan,

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1. 0:01Heart is feeling. Heart is emotion. Heart is not direction. Brain is direction. And if we're…
2. 1:03God at Mount Sinai. Having God open up the heavens and showing us the ultimate reality,…
3. 2:05Okay, that's the Omer. Now, at the end of the process, Shavuot is when we brought…
4. 3:06Heart is not direction. Brain is direction. And if we're going to be all heart, we're…
5. 4:38and that is part of the holiness and the oneness of creation. And that type of…
6. 5:40process is you're trapped in Egypt. That means you're trapped in your as so to speak…
7. 6:40getting there?" So, there's that trapped in Egypt level. We were slaves to Paro. Paro means…
8. 8:11servant, and then you can become complete and whole. And that's why the sages tell us,…
9. 9:13two. Take Hashem's Torah, and with that, conquer. Conquer and transform and transcend yourself and the…
10. 10:14godly component within us, here we can accomplish the impossible. It's not such a big kiddish.…

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