{"id":47475,"date":"2019-05-19T09:38:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T09:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=47475"},"modified":"2019-05-19T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T09:46:42","slug":"uncovering-the-moed-of-sefira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/uncovering-the-moed-of-sefira\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering the Moed of the Days of Sefira and the Biblical Yom Tov of Lag B&#8217;omer: The Electrifying Teaching of Rav Moshe Shapiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; they stopped dying because there were none left!<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t we make a shehechiyanu on Sefirat HaOmer?<\/p>\n<p>Why does the Torah mention Shabbos and the Omer in the Parshat HaMoadim &#8211; they aren&#8217;t moadim!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/moed-of-sefirah.pdf\">Download the mekorot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shiur provided courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.torahanytime.com\/\"><strong>Torah Anytime<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-post-47475 wp-image-36223 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/torah\/files\/TorahAnyTimeLogo-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"Torah Anytime Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; they stopped dying because there were none left! Why don&#8217;t we make a shehechiyanu on Sefirat HaOmer? 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