From the night of the communal Seder or for most people from the second night of Pesach we start counting the Omer, which is a 49 day...

WHERE ARE WE HEADING? We have celebrated Pesach – the anniversary of the day we left Egypt. The date is known. 15th. of Nissan. But when...

We are in the middle of counting the Omer, the 49-day cycle of days, seven weeks, which take us from Pesach to Shavuot. It is an...

עבדי הזמן עבדי עבדים הם. עבד ה׳ הוא לבד חופשי. Slaves of time are slaves of slaves. Only the servant of God is free. (Yehuda Halevi) Most...

Why do we count the Omer? There are so many possible reasons to give, but one is that we are structuring the time between Pesach and...