Counting & Rising to Greatness - Connecting Passover & Shavuot

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

We are in the period of time uh that's called Spirasa Omare and Spirasa Omr is the linkage between Pesak and the Ramban actually says very interestingly enough that one could envision as a longo there's a holiday called Pes which is rousenu the season of our freedom and there's a holiday called shuos called zaman matanu the season of our Torah But instead of looking at it like two separate holidays, omare creates a hamo kind of the intermediate days of a festival that link together two holidays and actually makes them one. And there's a very profound idea here because freedom without Torah is meaningless. A pesak that is not connected to avo is the freedom of the wild animal. It does not represent the nobility of man. and it does not represent the greatness of man. And therefore, the Tyra itself links the notion of freedom with the notion of Torah. Uh there was a great Indian poet, not Jewish, and I don't even know if he knew a Jew, Tagori, who once compared a human soul to a violin string. A violin string is capable of producing beautiful music, but only when it's tied down. If you take a loose string and put it on a table and pluck it, you're not going to get any music. The music comes only when it's tied across the bow or the bridge of the violin. Perfect. So too, a human soul is capable of such beautiful music, but only when it submits itself, it ties itself down to something higher and greater than itself. We operate with the illusion that if only we would be free, if we could do what we want, then we would be creative, then we would accomplish. But neb if I got to keep this commandment

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1. 0:00We are in the period of time uh that's called Spirasa Omare and Spirasa Omr is…
2. 3:14before we had chol. Barley was primarily fed to animals. Wheat was utilized for human consumption.…
3. 6:33that the Torah says you start counting the day after Shabas. Now most of the time,…
4. 9:42counting of the omare. Question one, why does the Torah describe the first day of Pesak…
5. 13:30get the impression that the cycle is automatic. The Rambam explains that is not quite true.…
6. 16:50etc. In fact, that's why Shabas is called a gift. A gift is something you haven't…
7. 20:05the holiness of Yam depends on ami Israel acting through the Sanhedrin because without an amii…
8. 23:51god. But now let's come to the next question. Why do we start counting the omare…
9. 27:08yours. Says the BMT in a hashem. When a person is far from Hashem, Hashem has…
10. 30:19step by step by step by step. And that is why has to be the day…

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