Counting of the Omer

You are reversing the order of the of the spiritual worlds up above, and that's not something you want to do.

For instance, another example of it is in Simar He, he has a question for the Sephardi Bochrim who learn in Ashkenazi yeshivot, when it comes to, this is something very, apparently very insignificant, when it comes to Sefirat HaOmer, the Ashkenazim say Sefirat HaOmer before Alon HaShabeach.

We say Sefirat HaOmer after Alon HaShabeach.

So you may come to forget.

You don't want to confirm with the minhag and so on.

read it a lot.

We read it also in the Sefirat HaOmer.

Right?

Every night in the Sefirat HaOmer we read it.

Okay? So the seven verses correspond to the seven branches of the menorah.

In some prayer books, the psalm is even printed in the shape of a menorah, which we do see, we have.

On a deeper level, the psalm can be understood as a roadmap for making the journey from the lower world to the higher realms, which makes sense also in Sefirat HaOmer.

Because Sefirat HaOmer, every day we're trying to grow higher and higher and higher.

You're showing a, how special the thing is that you're leading up to.

This that we count the Omer, such and such days have passed, 24 days have passed from the count, and we're not counting how many days left.

This shows us the deep desire to reach this time.

Okay? So says the Sefer HaChenuch, the sole purpose and the reason why we count, specifically starting from the day after we went out of Mitzrayim, is to show us that the excitement is not merely for the going free, which happened on the first day of Pesach.

The 48 ways of acquiring Torah.

So Evan asks the question, so we can also, what happened to day 49? There's like a gap.

You know, the 49 days of the Omer, you hit 50.

But the 48 weighs up.

So whenever there's something that's Torah Shabbat Peh, we dafka, make a big deal about it.

Remember the Omer, by the Omer, where you have a major machlogos with the Stukim about when Shavuos is.

It's from the Sfiras HaOmer.

So the Mishnahis and Menachas describe how we have a lot of pomp and circumstance regarding the Sfiras HaOmer.

We make it public.

Time to cut? Yes.

Some people in the Messianic community can cause a scene when various Christian people, over their observance of Easter, At the same time, other Messianic people properly integrate a remembrance of Yeshua's death, burial, and resurrection into their home and congregational Passover activities.

During the season of Unleavened Bread, a seven-week or 50-day period called the Counting of the Omer begins, which leads up to Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks.

Pentecost.

For ancient Israel in the Torah, the Feast of Weeks was originally an early harvest festival, but became quickly associated with the giving of the law at Mount Sinai.

They're all based on that same mimer of the Tzemach Tzedek.

There is also a tradition to study the tractate Sota during the Sefirat HaOmer.

And so he, Rebbe is explaining the reason for it based on the Zohar Cheli Gimel, which gives the connection and also brought down Hasidus that the Omer that's the Corban that they brought for the sefirah to Omer was made out of barley And that is the same as the Menchah, the meal offering of the Sotah was also made on the barley.

The usual grain that was brought in the Beit HaMikdash was wheat.

And last time we talked about the question of what in the world Kometz has to do with this.

We saw the idea that it's the Kometz Rashi says because we're hitting the 16th of Nisan at this point and they would have done the Omer and that's what the Kometz is about.

But we saw, I think it was the Marashah, definitely others, who objected to that and said the Omer doesn't have Solas.

It says here are Kometz of Solas.

Solis, fine flour.

Why? If it's only going to be If it's only going to be If it's only going to be There are two mitzvahs.

There's Tzira's Omer, and there's Havah's Omer.

So that is, even if matzah katzur, even if they found the Omer is bali, and you bring it on Thursday, Chalomay Pesach, If the first day of Chalamet Pesach happens to be Shabbos, so the dinner is that everything is Dechen Shabbos.

You do the kzir b'laylo, and you do the Havos Omer b'yom, on the first day of Chalamet Pesach.

And you bring Korbonis in conjunction with the Omer.

So you bring the Shter Lechem, Shter Lechem is chitim.

There is no Mitzvah of Ketzirah.

But the Omer on Pesach, there's a Mitzvah of Ketzirah the night of the first day.