Sefirat HaOmer 177 articles

Rav Soloveitchik discusses the five main issues surrounding sefirat ha’omer including whether it’s a mitzvah to count weeks or days and when to count. For part 2 click here

The following is the text of the RAMBAM with regard to the harvesting of the “Omer:” “On the Second Day of Passover,...

Walk on the sands of an hourglass shattered. Bare feet blistered, bleeding as they drag on those little grains of a scorched earth. It is so cold, then so hot: cold...

On Mount Sinai… Many metaphors hitchhike along the road that is Life on the hoarse-driven carriage that is the oft-used vocal cords of Language. Heaven and Earth, besides for being what...

Back when I was growing up in Cleveland Ohio, Lag B’omer was a great excuse for a school trip. While I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit it, the countdown to Lag B’omer...

Say to the… It isn’t easy saying it. Especially when it’s real. We met at one of those crossroads; you know, one of those that are more cross and less road....

For most of my adult life I remember that early sightings of Christmas decorations near my suburban NJ home were a sign that Thanksgiving was coming. In my childhood, the opposite...

Sefiras Ha’omer, Lag Ba’Omer and The Power of Achdut: Why is the korban named after the amount which is brought? What is the connection between the Omer and Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000...

A sect, known as the Tzedukim, after one of its founders, Tzadok, believed in the absolutely literal interpretation of the Torah. Therefore, they said that when the Torah says “on the...

What the Torah Says: The Torah says, in the context of introducing the commandment of “Sefirat HaOmer,” the following: (Vayikra 23:9-14) “And G-d gave this instruction to Moshe, to communicate: Speak...