{"id":54380,"date":"2023-05-16T13:52:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T13:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=54380"},"modified":"2023-05-16T13:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T13:52:40","slug":"sefira-omer-counting-weeks-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/sefira-omer-counting-weeks-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Sefirat HaOmer: Counting the Days and Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Delivered at the OU Israel Center, 25 Iyar 5783 \/ May 16, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Mindy and Seymour Liebman for a Refuah sheleima for Shifra bat Miriam and Chaya Leah bat Sara<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rabbi Breitowitz&#8217;s Tuesday Shiur is sponsored for the 2023 academic year by Rabbi Refoel and Sharon Auman in memory of their parents, Edith and Reiner Auman, z\u201dl,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u05d9\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4 \u05d1\u05df \u05e6\u05d3\u05d5\u05e7 \u05d6\u05f4\u05dc &amp; \u05d0\u05e1\u05ea\u05e8 \u05e2\u05f4\u05d4 \u05d1\u05ea \u05e8\u05e4\u05d0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d9\u05f4\u05d3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and their son Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu Auman, z&#8221;l, <\/em><em>\u05d4\u05e8\u05d1 \u05e9\u05de\u05d5\u05d0\u05dc \u05d0\u05dc\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5 \u05d6\u05f4\u05dc \u05d1\u05df \u05d4\u05e8\u05d1 \u05e8\u05e4\u05d0\u05dc \u05e0\u05f4\u05d9<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delivered at the OU Israel Center, 25 Iyar 5783 \/ May 16, 2023 Sponsored by Mindy and Seymour Liebman for a Refuah sheleima for Shifra bat Miriam and Chaya Leah bat Sara Rabbi Breitowitz&#8217;s Tuesday Shiur is sponsored for the 2023 academic year by Rabbi Refoel and Sharon Auman in memory of their parents, Edith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":54382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sefirat-haomer","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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