Sefirat HaOmer 141 articles

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Individualism and Integration
Individualism and Integration
May 28, 2019
By Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
The Secret of Lag BaOmer
The Secret of Lag BaOmer
Rebbi Shimon bar Yochai immersed in the סתרי תורה. There are two figures to whom the Jewish people go en masse – Rebbi Shimon bar Yochai and Rachel Imeinu. Why is...
May 22, 2019
By Rabbi Mendel Kessin
“5-Alive”: Rav Yosef Engel Reveals How Lag BaOmer is the Source of Life
“5-Alive”: Rav Yosef Engel Reveals How Lag BaOmer is...
Why did the 24,000 students of Rebbi Akiva specifically stop dying on Lag BaOmer? Why do we recite Tehillim 67 after counting the Omer? Why is the verse “יודוך עמים אלקים...
May 21, 2019
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
Uncovering the Moed of the Days of Sefira and the Biblical Yom Tov of Lag B’omer: The Electrifying Teaching of Rav Mosh...
Uncovering the Moed of the Days of Sefira and...
The Tur writes that we celebrate Lag BaOmer because that is the day the students of Rebbe Akiva stopped dying. Why is that a reason to celebrate – they stopped dying...
May 19, 2019
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
Lag B’omer: The Depths Are Calling to Us
Lag B’omer: The Depths Are Calling to Us
A generation will arise and live … Hundreds of thousands of people. Countless buses. It’s Lag B’omer. And seemingly endless throngs of every kind of Jew in the world make their...
May 16, 2019
By Rabbi Reuven Sasson
The Metamorphosis of Rebbi Shimon Bar Yochai
The Metamorphosis of Rebbi Shimon Bar Yochai
Rebbi Shimon Bar Yochai: The difference between the man who entered the cave and the man who left the cave. Delivered at the OU Israel Center, May 3rd, 2018 (18 Iyyar 5778)
May 12, 2019
By Rabbi Ari Kahn
Optimism, Rebbe Akiva, and Yom Ha’atzmaut
Optimism, Rebbe Akiva, and Yom Ha’atzmaut
The Maharal explains the connection between Sefirat HaOmer, the preparation for Matan Torah and Shavuot and the sin of Rebbe Akiva’s students. Throughout the Mishna and Gemara Rebbe Akiva is always...
May 6, 2019
By Shayna Goldberg
A Deeper Look at Lag BaOmer
A Deeper Look at Lag BaOmer
Rebbi Akiva’s students represented the continuation of the Torah after the churban. Since they were not fully qualified because of their behavior, the Torah transmitted through them to all future generations...
May 6, 2019
By Sylvie Schatz
The “Blessing” of Sefirat Haomer – Lomdut and Machshava of Rav Moshe Shapiro
The “Blessing” of Sefirat Haomer – Lomdut and Machshava...
The Rambam emphasizes that if you didn’t say the bracha on Sefirat HaOmer you don’t need to repeat sefirah with a bracha. Rav Moshe Shapiro asks in אפיקי מים: Of course...
May 2, 2019
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
Kriyat Yam Suf, Achdut, and Sefirat HaOmer: Takeaways from Pesach
Kriyat Yam Suf, Achdut, and Sefirat HaOmer: Takeaways from...
ויבאו בני ישראל בתוך הים ביבשה והמים להם חומה מימינם ומשמאלם” – שמות יד:כב” ובני ישראל הלכו ביבשה בתוך הים והמים להם חמה מימינם ומשמאלם” – שמות יד:כט” Why does the...
Apr 29, 2019
By Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz

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